Your new improved recycling Service

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To improve the recycling service all across Calderdale and respond to your requests for more waste streams to be recycled, we now collect all recycling every week.

Your collections: Weekly collections for food waste, plastic bottles, glass, cans, paper and textiles. For any non-recyclable waste that remains, you have a wheelie bin, where appropriate, which will be emptied once a fortnight. Households who don’t have a wheelie bin have a maximum of five standard issues sacks collected each fortnight.

Your Food waste collection service: click here to find out how that works

Enter your postcode into the Collection Day Finder to get your collection calendar for 2012 and for a reminder of which containers to put out when, Or use the postcode search in the top left corner of this website to see when your collection days are. Scroll down for comprehensive information about collections

Your bins, bags and boxes: There containers you need for the new improved service are - a recycling box for glass and cans, two brown food caddies (one large and one small), a green bag for paper, a white sack for plastics, and where appropriate a grey wheelie bin. Textiles can be placed into a carrier bag. If you don't have all of these containers just email info@recycleforcalderdale.org or call the Street Care Helpline on 0845 245 7000.

What's collected each week?: Glass, cans, paper, textiles, plastic bottles and food waste are collected weekly.
Non-recyclable waste(refuse) is collected fortnightly.

Collection Week One - Box, Food Caddy and White Sack

Collection Week Two - Food Caddy, White Sack, Green Bag and Grey Bin

Click on the receptacle above to find out more information or have a look below to see what the various containers are for, and when they will be collected from your property:

Collection Receptacle	Material(s)
	Cans, glass bottles and jars Yes Please… Any food and drinks cans Drinks bottles, sauce and food jars and any clear, green, brown or blue glass bottles and containers. No Thanks… Can lids – please remove these as they can get trapped in the can-sorting machinery. Broken glass (please wrap it carefully and place it in your grey bin) Crockery and Pyrex

	Cooked or uncooked food waste How to use your food waste caddies Yes Please… Meat, vegetables, cereals, bread, rice, pasta, peelings, bones etc. No Thanks… Pet food or animal waste. Please only use the compostable liners provided (no plastic bags)

	Plastic bottles Please take the tops off the plastic bottles, rinse and squash them. Yes Please… Any plastic bottle which held a liquid, eg Milk bottles, drinks bottles, detergent bottles, cleaning fluid bottles, shampoo bottles, etc. No Thanks… Bottle tops/lids (as these are made from a different type of plastic which cannot be recycled). Any other types of plastic packaging such as yogurt pots, margarine tubs, food packaging, etc.

	Newspapers and magazines Yes Please… Newspapers, magazines, brochures, office paper, junk mail (remove plastic wrapping), telephone directories, catalogues, thin card (cereal packets, food packaging sleeves and toilet roll holders), etc. No Thanks… Hardback books, waxed cartons, corrugated or thick cardboard.

	Textiles Please put any clean textiles that you would like recycled neatly into a separate carrier bag. Yes Please… Any unwanted textiles; clothes, blankets, bedding, shoes (pairs only and please tie the laces together), curtains, etc. No Thanks… Duvets, cushions or pillows, or any dirty items.

	Non recyclable household waste, such as packaging, nappies, animal waste, hoover dust, etc. can be placed in the grey wheelie bin, or in the black plastic sacks provided if your house is not issued with a bin. Please note: Non recyclable waste is collected every other week. Check your collection days by visiting your collection day finder or by entering your postcode at the top left of this page.

How to use your food waste caddies

You should already have two food waste caddies and some compostable liners. Put the liners inside the small kitchen caddy. Once the smaller caddy is full, tie up the full liner and put it into the larger caddy.

You should keep the smaller caddy in your house; don’t place it outside for collection. Place the larger caddy out for collection on the weekly collection day. Put the black handle fully down, this locks the caddy lid.

Only use the compostable liners provided. Caddies containing any other type of liner will not be emptied as this will contaminate the entire consignment of food waste.

Please do not put any packaging in the food waste caddies.

Please use your food caddy for all of your cooked or uncooked food waste including:

Any type of food leftovers, meat, vegetables, cereals, bread, rice, pasta, peelings, bones.

Please do not use your kitchen caddy for any animal food or animal waste. Contaminated loads of food waste are rejected by the composting site and sent to landfill.

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