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
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