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Please recycle correctly

All Castle Point households will be receiving a leaflet over the next few weeks reminding householders of what  can be put in the pinks sacks for recycling.

Even though residents can recycle the large majority of their waste there are still some materials which unfortunately cannot be recycled. All items that cannot be recycled should be placed in the black refuse sacks for collection.

Placing materials that cannot be recycled in the pink recycling sacks can lead to the whole sack being rejected and not recycled or poorer quality recyclables and additional costs to the Council and to the Council tax payer.

In order to maximise recycling performance and maintain the high quality of  the recyclables, pink recycling sacks which contain things that cannot be recycled  are  stickered with a note saying that the bag has not been collected because it contains contaminated material.

Householders are  asked to remove sacks which are not collected from the roadside as the bags are their responsibility until collected  and either remove the contaminated materials,  re- bag and represent for collection in the next recycling collection or leave the bags for collection in next black sack collection the following week.

Councillor Ray Howard Cabinet Member for Waste said

‘Castle Point residents are excellent at recycling. We need residents to help  keep contamination levels low and only recycle materials that can be accepted’

You can put the following in your pink sack for recycling

Plastic Bottles - including bottle tops, simply squash bottle and replace

Y soft drink bottles
Y squash/cordial
Y mouthwash
Y milk bottles
Y bleach
Y cleaners (including trigger bottles)
Y shampoo/shower gel
Y yoghurt/pro-biotic drink (actimel, Yakult)
Y medicine (take unused medicines to a pharmacy for disposal)

Plastic Trays                                                          

  • meat (not polystyrene)
    Y fruit punnet
    Y salad tray
    Y sandwich container
    Y ready-meal tray
    Y take-away trays

Food & drinks cans

Please simply rinse these before placing in the pink sack.

Y all drink cans
Y all food cans
Y biscuit tins
Y all aerosol spray cans (empty only)
Y foil and foil container

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

Paper

Y newspaper & magazines
Y unwanted mail & leaflets
Y envelopes (all colours)
Y window envelopes (no need to remove window)
Y padded envelopes
Y office paper
Y shredded paper
Y catalogues & telephone directories (all types)
Y wrapping paper (not foil or ribbons)
Y paper bags
Y books (remove cover from hardback books)

Cardboard

Y all cardboard boxes (e.g. Corrugated, cereal, ready meal)
Y toilet & kitchen roll tubes
Y Christmas & Birthday cards
Y cardboard egg boxes
Y cigarette boxes
Y Beverage cartons & Cartons (e.g. juice, milk cartons etc)

For more information check out the Council’s website www.castlepoint.gov.uk