What materials can go in your pink sack?

plastic packaging   

Please simply rinse these before placing in the pink sack.

All plastic bottles all colours (e.g. milk, detergent, shampoo), please squash bottles
Yoghurt pots & margarine tubs
Other food containers and trays
Bottle tops, simply squash bottle and replace

Plastic film, bubble wrap & plastic bags
Expanded polystyrene (e.g. fast food trays, packaging)
Crisp packets
Other plastics (e.g. children’s toys, garden furniture, VHS tapes, tupperware) 

 food & drinks cans 

Please simply rinse food cans before placing in the pink sack.

All drink cans
All food cans
All aerosol spray cans (empty only)

Foil and foil containers 

mixed paper & cardboard

If the cardboard does not fit in the pink sack this can be flattened and placed for collection under the pink sack.
Newspaper & magazines
Unwanted mail & leafl ets
Envelopes
Office & shredded paper
Catalogues & telephone directories (all types)
Wrapping paper (not foil)

All cardboard boxes (e.g. Corrugated, cereal, ready meal)
Toilet & kitchen roll tubes
Christmas & Birthday cards

Wall paper
Tissue paper
Hardback catalogues

Need more pink sacks?

All pink sacks are FREE.  There is no limit to the amount of sacks you can have as we want you to recycle as much as possible, these can be collected from:

• Council Offices, Kiln Road, Benfleet
• Cashiers Offices, Sydervelt Road, Canvey Island
• Libraries at Canvey Island, Hadleigh, South Benfleet and Tarpots. Click for opening times