www.woking.gov.uk

Your Everyday Heroes

waste and recycling

collection calendar 2015

Includes

Christmas waste

collection schedule

Last year more than half of the materials placed into Woking’s black refusebins could have been recycled using the blue-lidded bins and food caddies.Disposing of these valuable resources cost residents £500,000 more than itwould have cost to recycle them!

Everyone has the power to recycle. So join the fight against wasteful and

expensive disposal and become an 'Everyday Recycling Hero' for Woking.

A list of what can be recycled using your blue recycling bin or sack, food caddy,

textile and small electrical collections is included in this calendar.

Do you know what happens to your recyclable waste once it has been

collected from the kerbside?

Check out our superhero comics and newsletters which show you what happens

‘behind the scenes' at www.woking.gov.uk/everydayheroescomic or discover

fascinating facts, hints and tips about recycling in Woking at

www.woking.gov.uk/recyclenewsletter

Extra festive waste

Over the festival holidays we create around 30% more waste.

Extra recycling is always collected

when presented in securely tied

carrier bags (to keep paper and

card dry) by the side of your

recycling bin. So please do not be

tempted to put recyclables into the

black bin!

If you regularly have extra recycling

or food, we can provide you with

another recycling bin or food caddy

free of charge.

Woking Borough Council and Biffa would like to wish all our EverydayRecycling Heroes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Heroes assemble!

For Christmas hints and tips, please visit www.woking.gov.uk/christmastips

Festive waste and recycling collectionsDon’t forget that household waste and recycling collections change during thefestive season. Your collection arrangements are listed in the table below:

Normal collection day (recycling) Revised collection day (recycling)

Monday 22 December Monday 22 December (no change)

Tuesday 23 December Tuesday 23 December (no change)

Wednesday 24 DecemberWednesday 24 December(no change)

Thursday 25 December(Christmas Day)

Saturday 27 December

Friday 26 December Monday 29 December

Normal collection day (black bin)

Monday 29 December Tuesday 30 December

Tuesday 30 December Wednesday 31 December

Wednesday 31 December Friday 2 January

Thursday 1 January(New Year’s Day)

Saturday 3 January

Friday 2 January Monday 5 January

Normal collection day (recycling)

Monday 5 January Tuesday 6 January

Tuesday 6 January Wednesday 7 January

Wednesday 7 January Thursday 8 January

Thursday 8 January Friday 9 January

Friday 9 January Saturday 10 January

Clinical waste collections

Collections scheduled for Thursday

25 December will take place on

Saturday 27 December.

Collections scheduled for Thursday

1 January will take place on

Saturday 3 January.

Garden waste collections

There will be no collections of

garden waste weeks commencing

22 December and 29 December.

Collections will restart on Tuesday

6 January in accordance with the

revised schedule above.

Revised collection day (black bin)

Revised collection day (recycling)

Blue-lidded recycling bin

Paper and card

Newspaper and

magazines

Shredded paper

Junk mail, leaflets

and brochures

Letters and

envelopes

(including windows)

Shopping

catalogues

Telephone

directories

Toilet roll tubes

Greetings cards

Wrapping paper

Paperback books

Cardboard boxes

Ready meal sleeves

Paper bags

Plastics

Drinks bottles

Milk bottles

Toiletry bottles

Plastic meat/fish

trays

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Fruit punnets

Takeaway

containers

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cream tubs

Cake/pastry trays

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containers

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bottles

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drinks cans

Steel/aluminium

cans

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Ready meal and

pie foil trays

Foil takeaway

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Metal jar lids

Sweet/biscuit tins

Glass

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Jam jars

Broken bottles

and jars

What can you recycle?

Small electricals (WEEE)

Carrier bag next to black refuse bin

Kettles, toasters and other small

kitchen appliances

Video players, laptops, DVD

players and remote controls

Household and mobile phone

batteries

Cameras and all

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Hair dryers, hair

straighteners

and hair clippers

Small electronic

toys

Radios, alarms

and speakers

Textiles

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All clothing (worn or torn)

Shoes and slippers (paired)

Towels and bed sheets

Curtains

REMOTE

Food waste

Silver kitchen caddy

Bread and pastries

Fish (including shellfish)

Fruit and vegetable peelings

Tea and coffee grounds

Eggs (including shells)

Dairy (except milk)

Meat (including bones)

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