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Recycling in ShepwayShepway sends more than 21,000 tonnes of waste to landfill every year at a significant cost to the environment, the council and ultimately council tax payers.
Recycling in Shepway is easy. The council provides a free door-to-door recycling collection service. You can find full details of what you can recycle, which container to put it in, and when it is collected at the
Shepway District Council recycling web pages. You can also request an e-mail reminder to be sent the day before your waste collection. The following is a summary:
Food bin and caddy - Weekly collectionYou have two containers for food waste. A small caddy for your kitchen and a food bin to keep outside which is lockable. You can use this to recycle all your cooked and raw food waste.
Recycling Bin* - Fortnightly collectionYou have a purple lidded wheeled bin. You can use this to recycle more of your waste including: glass bottles and jars, cans and tins, all types of plastic packaging and cartons.
- Please do not include plastic bags or plastic film (bread bags, cling film, frozen veg bags, magazine wraps etc)
Recycling Box - Fortnightly collectionYour existing black box is now used for paper and card.
Green-lidded wheeled bin* - FortnightlyYou can use this for the very little remaining rubbish that can't be recycled or composted.
Can I recycle anything else at KCC Household Waste Recycling Centres?
- Yes (Check the Recycling Centre on the KCC website to see what it accepts).
Eg Shornecliffe, Folkestone : Cans, Domestic batteries, Cars batteries, Cardboard, Printer/Toner Cartridges, Engine Oil, Fridges and Freezers, Fluorescent tubes/Low Energy Light Bulbs, Foil, Garden waste, Gas bottles, Glass, Metal, Mobile phones, Paper, Shoes, Small Electrical Appliances, Soil/rubble, Spectacles, Textiles, TVs/Monitors, Tyres, Wood.
Source: Shepway District Council
Other recycling facilities:
Supermarkets - The major supermarkets have collection points in-store for plastic carrier bags, and not only their own brand. These will typically be recycled into other plastic products such as garbage bags or heavy-duty sacks for fertiliser etc. If you have home deliveries from Tesco, the delivery drivers will also collect your plastic bags for recycling.
Elham Primary School - there are bins outside the school gates for aluminium foil, aluminium cans (such as soft drink cans) and for newspapers, junk mail and magazines.
Freecycling
Freecycle allows local members to dispose of unwanted items by giving them away free to others who need them and so sending less to the landfill sites.
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