What goes in your pink sack?

 

 

Plastic Items we collect

Please rinse these before placing all these items in your pink sack together - but why?

Plastic Bottles - including bottle tops, squash bottle and replace 

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

Plastic Trays 

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

Plastic pots and cases

• yoghurt (all types)
• margarine/butter tub
• vitamin pots
• sweet
• flower pots
• CD/DVD/VHS/cassette cases

Plastic we don't collect

• plastic bags
• plastic film (e.g. sweet wrappers, cling-film, shrink wrap etc) Alternative: try reusable wraps
• bubble wrap
• expanded polystyrene (e.g. fast food trays, packaging)
• crisp packets Alternative: Recycle with Terracycle
• biscuit wrappers and similar
• Cotton buds & cotton wool Alternative: try reusable face cloths?
• Nappies Alternative: - try cloth nappies
• CDs/DVDs
• VHS or audio cassette
• paint pots
• coat-hangers
• other plastics (e.g. children’s toys, garden furniture, Tupperware)

What is the problem with plastic?

The use of plastic items, especially single-use items (which are items only used once), is accelerating climate change and polluting our world. But there are many ways you can reduce your single-use plastic and make a difference.  Read more...

 

 

 

 

 

Food & drinks cans we collect

  Please rinse these items before placing in the pink sack - but why?

• all drink cans
• all food cans
• biscuit tins
• all aerosol spray cans (empty only)
• foil and foil containers

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Mixed paper & cardboard

If the cardboard does not fit in the pink sack this can be flattened and placed under another pink sack.

Paper we collect

• newspaper & magazines
• unwanted mail & leaflets
• envelopes (all colours)
• window envelopes (no need to remove window)
• padded envelopes
• office paper
• shredded paper
• catalogues & telephone directories (all types)
• wrapping paper (not foil or ribbons) Check if accepted: Try the scrunch test
• paper bags
• books (remove cover from hardback books)

Cardboard we Collect

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

Paper/Cardboard we don't collect

• wall paper
• sand paper
• tissue paper
• kitchen/toilet paper

 

 

Need more pink sacks?

All pink sacks are FREE and are available from:

Waterside Farm Leisure Centre and Runnymede Leisure Centre.

 

 

To download a guide on recycling pink sacks:

Pink Sack - how to....[pdf] 638KB