Recycling

Find out what you CAN and CAN'T recycle here

You can now recycle plastic pots, tubs and trays – yogurt pots, ice cream tubs, ready meal trays, and fruit and vegetable trays in your recycling – but please don’t forget to rinse them out and dry them first and remove the tops and lids (bottle tops are too small to recycle and are usually made from a different kind of plastic).

Watch the CDC Recycling video (below).

You CAN recycle these (rinsed out) items:

Bleach/household cleaner bottles
Drinks bottles etc.
Shampoo/conditioner bottles
Chocolate tubs/trays (Roses, Heroes, etc.)
Cosmetic tubs and pots
Deodorant roll-on
Fruit and vegetable boxes/punnets
Lids from coffee jars, marmite, ice cream tubs
Laundry/dishwasher detergent tubs/boxes
Microwave/ready meal trays
Moulded plastic protective packaging
Yoghurt pots, tubs and trays
Ready-made salad boxes/containers
Sliced cheese and meat trays

You CAN”T recycle these items:

Plastic bags
Small plastic bottle tops
Foam food containers
Tupperware or lunch boxes
Plastic liners/wrappers/packets
Pens
Plant pots or seed trays
Plastic film
Toothbrushes or toothpaste tubes
Credit/gift/loyalty/membership cards
CD, DVD, games cases
Vinyl records
Plastic furniture
Triggers from spray bottles
Plastic plates or cutlery
Bin, buckets, funnels, pegs or watering cans

For more information:

Plastic Planet - Campaign for a plastic-free aisle

By 2050 there will be more plastic in the Oceans than fish by weight. Join the campaign for a plastic-free aisle in supermarkets:

http://aplasticplanet.com/why/

Recycling advice

http://www.chichester.gov.uk/recyclingadvice

Recycling

http://www.recycleforwestsussex.org/home-recycling/your-kerbside-collection/plastics/

http://www.recycleforwestsussex.org/home-recycling/

Remove tops and lids

http://www.recycleforwestsussex.org/news/news/?id=119

Collection calendar

http://www.chichester.gov.uk/wastecollectioncalendar

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