Your NEW
Recycling
Service
Starts
Monday
• Your NEW service • What you should recycle
• Why it’s important • Find out more inside
Top tip
This is your new recycling service which
allows you to recycle a wide range of
materials at home. Please use your new
recycling containers provided
When your supply of liners is
running low, simply tie an unused
liner to the handle of the outdoor
caddy on your normal collection
day. A new supply of liners will
be placed inside your caddy
after it has been emptied
Top tip
If you do not have standard
wheelie bins, please use
supplied waste and recycling
sacks instead
YOUR Recycling Containers
Outdoor Caddy
Indoor Caddy Free Liners
Blue Bin
Brown Bin
Green Bin
A years supply of
biodegradeable
food waste liners
Black Box and Textile Bags
Red Box
Cardboard and paper
Glass, household batteries, small
electrical items and textiles in bags
Mixed plastics, food and
drinks cartons, cans and foil
Garden waste
General waste
All containers to be presented by 6.30am
The following pages explain what can be recycled
and how to use your new service
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Red Box
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Use the
right bin
The green bin is only for general waste
materials. It must not contain any materials
that can be recycled
(net attached)
Plastic containers/food and
drinks cartons, and cans/foil
1 Collect and
prepare your
materials for
recycling
2 Wash and
squash your plastic
containers and rinse
your cans
3 Flatten your
food and drinks
cartons and
plastic bottles
Your red box will be collected
EVERY WEEK
4 Separately place
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Your red box will be collected at
the same time as your food waste
caddy and black box
5 Stretch the
your plastic containers
net over the box
and food and drinks
and use the red
cartons into one side of
tab to affix
the box, and cans and foil
into the other - do not bag
YES 3
Plastic containers
4Butter and margarine tubs
4Cling film and other plastic
food wrapping film
4Food and drinks cartons
4Ice cream tubs
4Plastic bags
4Plastic biscuit and cake trays
Top tip
6 Place your red
box at your normal
collection point by
6.30am on your
collection day. We will
collect it every week
NO 8
4Plastic detergent bottles
4Plastic drinks bottles
4Plastic fruit and vegetable trays
4Plastic meat trays
4Plastic shampoo bottles
4Plastic take-away tubs
4Yoghurt pots
Tins, cans and foil
4 Food and drinks cans
4 Clean aluminium foil
4 Empty aerosols
4 Metal lids
4 Sweet and biscuit tins
8 Hard or rigid 8 Liquids
plastics such
8 Polystyrene
as toys, basins
Top tip
Fill box and secure contents by extending net
over length of box. Use red tab to stretch net
over box handle
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Food Waste
For all types of food waste
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Use the
right bin
The green bin is only for general waste
materials. It must not contain any materials
that can be recycled
Your outdoor food waste caddy will
be collected EVERY WEEK
Top tip
The average
household uses
between 2 to 3
liners per week
1 Put one of the free liners into your indoor caddy
2 Put all
cooked and
uncooked food
waste into your
indoor caddy
YES 3
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4 Breads, cakes and pastries
4 Eggs - including shells
4 Fish - including bones, skin
and shells
4 Fruit and vegetables - cooked
and raw, including cores and
peelings
4 Meat - including fat, skin
and bones
3 When the
liner is almost full,
tie and remove it
from the indoor
caddy and replace
with a new liner
4 Pet food - wet and dry
4 Rice, pasta and beans
4 Tea bags and coffee grounds
4 Cooking oil, lard and other
fats - cool before transferring
to your indoor caddy
4 Place the
full liner in your
outdoor caddy
5 Place your outdoor
caddy at your normal
collection point by 6.30am
on your collection day. We
will collect it every week
NO 8
8 Food packaging e.g. cardboard,
plastic wrapping, tins
8 Garden waste
8 Glass
8 Liquids
8 Straw or other animal bedding
products
8 Pet waste
Top tip
Your outdoor caddy will be
collected at the same time
as your black and red boxes
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Black Box
Glass, household batteries,
small electrical items and
textiles in bags
prepare your
materials for
recycling
YES 3
2 Place brown
and green bottles
and jars into one
side of your black
box, and clear
bottles and jars
into the other
Glass bottles and jars
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Baby food jars
Beer bottles
Cooking sauce jars
Jam jars
Juice bottles
Wine bottles
items can be placed
on top or alongside
black box
Electric drills and tools
Hairdryers
Irons
Kettles
Household batteries (bagged)
Radios
Toasters
The green bin is only
for general waste materials.
It must not contain any
materials that can be
recycled
Your black box and textile bags
will be collected EVERY WEEK
3 Small electrical 4 Batteries should 5 Place any
Small electrical items
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Use the
right bin
Larger electrical items, including
TV screens and monitors, can
be recycled at your nearest
Recycling Centre
and white Textile Bags
1 Collect and
3
Top tip
be placed in clear
plastic bags and put
into your black box
clothes, textiles and
shoes tied in pairs
into the white textile
recycling bag
6 Place your black box
and textile recycling bag
at your normal collection
point by 6.30am on your
collection day and we
will collect it every week
NO 8
Clothing, other
textiles and shoes
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Blankets and sheets
Clothing
Shoes (tied in pairs)
Towels
Trainers (tied in pairs)
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Broken glass
Crockery
Drinking glasses
Pillows
Pyrex
Quilts
Sleeping bags
Window/flat glass
Top tip
Collected at the same
time as your red box
and food waste caddy
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Blue Bin
Cardboard and paper
3
Use the
right bin
The green bin is only for general waste
materials. It must not contain any materials
that can be recycled
Your blue bin will be collected
EVERY FOUR WEEKS.
Check your calendar for details
Top tip
If you do not have
a blue bin please
use the supplied
blue recycling sacks
instead
1 Prepare your
materials for
recycling
2 Collect all types 3 Flatten your
of paper
cardboard
4 Place your
cardboard and
paper in your
blue bin
5 Place your blue bin
YES 3
NO 8
Paper
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4
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Brochures
Catalogues
Envelopes
Leaflets
Magazines
at the normal collection
point by 6.30am on
your collection day and
we will collect it every
four weeks
Cardboard
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Newspapers
Office paper
Wrapping paper
Yellow pages
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4
Brown corrugated
cardboard boxes
Cardboard packaging
Cereal boxes
Toilet roll tubes
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Food and drink cartons
Padded envelopes
Plastic bags or wrappers
Polystyrene
Packaging contaminated
with food waste
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3
Brown Bin
For all types of garden waste
Use the
right bin
The green bin is only for general waste
materials. It must not contain any materials that
can be recycled
Your brown bin will be collected
EVERY FOUR WEEKS.
Check your calendar for details
Top tip
If you do not have
a brown bin please
use the supplied
biodegradable sacks
for your garden
waste instead
1 Collect your
garden waste
2 We cannot
take soil or stones,
only place plant
material in your
bin
3 Twigs and
small branches
should be cut to
lengths that fit
in your bin
YES 3
at your normal collection
point by 6.30am on your
collection day and we will
collect it every four weeks
Flowers and plants
Grass cuttings
Hedge trimmings
Leaves
Weeds
Top tip
8 No soil or stones
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Prunings
Sawdust
Cut flowers
Twigs and small branches
Remember to present your black box
on the same day as your brown bin
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materials in your
bin
5 Place your brown bin
NO 8
All types of Garden Waste
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4 Place these
Seasonal Collection
Your brown bin is collected from March
to November.
Top tip
Take your excess garden
waste to your nearest
Recycling Centre where it
will be recycled, and you
can collect your free
Compost To Go at the
same time
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Green Bin
General waste container for
materials that cannot be recycled
Your green bin will be collected EVERY TWO WEEKS.
Check your calendar for dates
Transforming East Ayrshire
Your enhanced recycling service is part of East Ayrshire
Council’s Transformation Strategy for waste which allows
you to recycle a wide range of materials at home. When
fully introduced across East Ayrshire (by Autumn 2014)
there will be very little waste that cannot be recycled
from home.
Therefore, from April 2015, East Ayrshire Council will
introduce an extended collection service for your general
waste container, which means that your green bin will no
longer be collected every two weeks.
Details to follow during 2014/15
1 Please collect
your materials that
cannot be recycled
and place in the
green bin
2 Place your green 3 We will collect
bin at your normal
collection point by
6.30am
it every two weeks on
your collection day
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• If you receive a pull-out service at the moment this will continue
• Additional recycling containers are available free of charge
Top tip
If you do not have a green bin
please use the supplied lilac
sacks instead
We’re here to help
• Excess recycling can be presented on your usual
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Use the
right bin
The green bin
must not contain any
materials that can
be recycled
collection day, e.g. flatten large cardboard and place
next to blue bin, bag mixed plastics and place next to
red box etc.
• You can collect your free Compost To Go at your local recycling centre
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What happens to the
materials I recycle?
The materials we collect from your recycling containers and bags are
taken to special processing plants where they are recycled and turned
into valuable new resources.
Your food waste is taken to a special processing plant where it is
recycled and turned into valuable resources such as agricultural
fertiliser and energy.
Waste Management Services,
Western Road Depot, Western Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 1LL
Tel: 01563 554033 Email: [email protected]
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