Sorting Your Recycling

Each local authority is responsible for setting up collection systems for their area, considering a range of factors, such as existing infrastructure, local contracts, budgets and the types of homes to be served.

In Gloucester, we ask residents to sort their recycling into boxes and bags before we collect it in specially adapted lorries. This means that the recycling is really good quality.

Residents are asked to put glass on its own into one green box (or bin for communal recycling) – keeping it separate means that other loads (cardboard and plastic) are not contaminated by broken glass.

Plastic, tins and cans go into another green box (or communal bin) – these materials are sorted by machinery at our yard on Eastern Avenue.

Cardboard and paper go into your blue sack (or communal bin) – please remember to fold / cut your cardboard so that it fits into the sack.

We have two types of food waste caddy – a small one for your kitchen, and a larger one to put out for collection at the kerbside. You can line your caddy with a plastic bag or newspaper if you want to keep it clean.

If you are not sure whether something can be recycled, ask Gloucestershire's Waste Wizard