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Whether you use the kerbside collections, communal bins, recycling banks at supermarkets or your local household recycling centre (Tip at Hempsted, Gloucester), it is now easier than ever to recycle your paper, glass, tins, plastic milk bottles, batteries, lightbulbs and card and cardboard, and much more.

This section contains hyperlinks to help you find out everything you need to know about recycling and reusing, plus some useful information on reducing your landfill waste, garden waste collections, and home composting.

Reduce and Reuse| - Find out how easy it is to reduce and reuse everyday items ...

Find out more about recycling| - Gloucester City Council’s recycling box collections are weekly. Please put your recycling box out by 7am on the day of collection.

|Contact the Recycling Team| for an additional or replacement box or to arrange an assisted collection for the elderly or infirm. Have you lots more questions? Then we have answers for you on our Frequently Asked Questions| page View our Contact Us| page for all the different ways to contact us.

Food Waste

Collectionoffooditems Gloucester City Council has made improvements to the way your refuse is collected. To help you to recycle more, we have introduced a weekly food waste collection and enhanced recycling scheme helping us to reduce the waste that ends up in landfill sites.

Your food waste will be collected and taken to a special processing plant where it will be recycled into compost, for use on farms.

Click Frequently Asked Questions| , for more information

Two Food Waste Containers...

All households should have two food waste containers; a small one for the kitchen and a larger one to be put at the kerbside for collection. If you have not received your caddies, please contact Gloucester City Council on 01452 396 396.

Caring for your food waste containers ...

Both the larger outside bin and the small kitchen caddy are washable. However, you may want to line them to help keep them clean. You can use either newspaper or kitchen roll paper as these are fully compostable.

Alternatively, you may wish to buy suitable paper bin liners and there are several commercial companies who supply these.

Check out the Recycle for Gloucestershire| web site for more information and hints and tips to help you manage your food waste.