Your New Recycling Service

YOUR NEW SERVICE HAS STARTED

No matter where you live in Calderdale, the great news is you can use your household recycling service to recycle cans and old clothes from home. You can now add these to the paper and glass you already put in your recycling box or bag.

Thanks to our residents we are now recycling more than ever in Calderdale, nearly 25% of our household waste. That’s a great achievement over the past couple of years. Collecting cans and textiles everywhere in Calderdale is just the start of many improvements to our recycling services, in 2009 there are a lot more to come!

No changes to your waste collection
Apart from this improvement, your household recycling and waste collections are staying the same from August, with no major changes until Spring 2009. Next year we will be improving your recycling services further by making more collections and adding extra materials that we will collect. The biggest change is that there will be a weekly food waste collection. More details of the changes next year will be available on this website shortly.

What happens to your old cans?

Put your clean, dry cans in the box or bag provided and once they’re at our recycling centre, the steel is separated from the aluminium using a machine with a huge magnet. The cans are then melted down and made into anything from trains to planes or even back into cans again.

... and the old clothes?

Simply put your clean and dry old clothes in a bag next to your recycling box, and they’ll be sorted out at the recycling centre. The winter clothes are sent to cold countries, summer clothes to warm countries, and anything that can’t be worn again is made into rags for garages or shredded into filling for car seats. Nothing goes to waste.  Go to what happens to your recycled materials to read more about where your recycling goes in Calderdale.