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Yellow Pages
Yellow Pages can now be recycled at all paperbanks across the city.
Green Garden Waste Collection
44,000 households in Gloucester have received a 240 litre green wheeled bin for garden waste collections. The bins are for grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, weeds plants and leaves, twigs and small branches (maximum 5mm diameter), and cut flowers.
For full details of what you can and cannot put in the bins click here|.
Trade Waste - Your Responsibility
If you operate any form of business, you have a legal responsibility under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and other related legislation to safely contain and legally dispose of any waste produced from your business. For further details about your responsibility click here. Further information can also be obtained on the Environmental Health| web pages.
What is Gloucester City Council doing?
Since 1990, Gloucester City Council has encouraged people within the city to reduce, re-use and recycle their waste.
We now have many services in place to assist residents in recycling as much of their waste as possible, these include:
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Green box kerbside recycling collection service to all households in the city - collecting paper, cans, glass, plastic milk bottles, textiles and shoes
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Recycling banks at the large supermarkets collecting cardboard and all plastic bottles paper, glass, cans, textiles and shoes
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Mini recycling facilities for flats - collecting paper, glass, cans and plastic milk bottles from a communal area
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Garden cuttings collection service to 44,000 households in the city that have gardens. Details of those streets that are subject to green garden waste collections can be found by clicking here.
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Introduction of a closed-lid policy to all households covered by the garden cuttings collection service, where all refuse must be contained within one wheeled bin with the lid properly closed and no additional bags of rubbish placed next to the bin. This policy has encouraged more people to recycle and thus has reduced the amount of rubbish we are sending to landfill.
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Promotion of heavily subsidised home composters, which are available for as little as £17. To order your bin , please call 0845 0770757 or click here to find out more about composting.
Recycling - A to Z of what you can recycle|
The Benefits of Recycling
Recycling recovers valuable raw materials and saves energy that would have been used in the making of unrecycled raw materials. Recycling also prevents waste going to less environmentally friendly disposal routes such as landfill and incineration. You can also make a difference by buying recycled products|.
To find out which day you rubbish will be collected on Click Here|
What can YOU do to help?
The Council has set a target of recycling 50% of household waste by 2010. We currently have a dry-recycling rate of 16.5% and a composting rate of 8.3% giving us a combined recycling rate of 24.8%. In order to ensure we continue to increase our recycling rate, we are encouraging all residents to firstly participate in recycling and secondly, to recycle as much as possible.
Well done Gloucester...but more to do...
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