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Recycling and household waste sites

Introduction

SITA UK|  now provides a recycling collection service for up to 90,000 households in Calderdale.

The new and improved recycling service, introduced in April 2009, is specifically for the collection of glass, paper, cans, textiles, food waste and plastic bottles from domestic households. Simply place your;

• glass bottles and jars, and steel and aluminium cans in the black box,
• paper in your green bag,
• textiles in any used carrier bag,
• plastic bottles in your white sack,
• food waste in the large brown food caddy.

All other rubbish should be placed in your wheelie bin or black bags.

See Recycle for Calderdale|.

Calderdale Council provides 5 Household Waste Recycling Sites ( HWRS) throughout the borough, which offer facilities as those mentioned above, in addition to cardboard, scrap metal, fridges, motor oil, green garden waste, car batteries, bricks and rubble, timber and plastic bottles. See also Christmas tree recycling.

There are approximately 20 mini-recycling sites in Calderdale where householders can take items such as glass, paper, cans, textiles and shoes, and some sites also accept books and music, carrier bags and mobile phones.

Also see:

• Free 2 Collect|
• Calderdale Freecycle|
• DOT-COMmunications IT Recycling Service|  
• Pass It On!|  and
• Find Recyclers Near You|.

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