Item you wish to recycle | Examples etc | Where they go |
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Aerosol cans | Deodorants, air fresheners, anti-freeze cans | Black Box. Cans must be empty |
Air fresheners | All brands of plastic air freshener containers and cartridge caps, plastic car air fresheners. Not electric plug-ins. | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Aluminium cans and steel tins | Drink cans, food tins, biscuit or sweet tins | Black Box |
Asbestos* | Needs to be pre booked as an asbestos delivery | RE3 recycling centre |
Baby food pouches | All brands of baby food pouches, children's yogurt pouches and pouch cups | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Bathroom suites* | RE3 recycling centre | |
Batteries | All consumer batteries | Any shop or supermarket selling batteries has to provide a recycling facility |
Bedding | First Days charity are local and will reuse, or … | RE3 recycling centre |
Bicycles** | Reading Bicycle Kitchen or … | RE3 recycling centre |
Biscuit, cracker and cake bar packets | Digestive, fig roll ….. Whatever you enjoy | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Books** | RE3 recycling centre or many charity shops | |
Bread bags | All plastic bread bags can be used to line your food waste bin or…. | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Bric a brac** | RE3 recycling centre | |
Brita Filters | RE3 recycling centre | |
Car batteries | RE3 recycling centre | |
Card and Cardboard | Cereal boxes, corrugated card, egg boxes, kitchen and toilet roll tubes, flattened delivery boxes, greetings cards, empty pizza boxes | Black Box |
Carpets | RE3 recycling centre | |
Cartons (Tetrapak) | Juice, milk and soup cartons | Black Box |
Catalogues | Black Box | |
Cheese packaging | All brands - plastic wrappers, film, pouches, labels & plastic nets and all Babybel packaging | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
China and crockery** | The Cowshed charity | The Cowshed charity or RE3 recycling centre |
Clothes, shoes and fabrics | The Cowshed reuse charity thecowshed.org or RE3 recycling centre | |
Coffee pods and coffee bean pouches | Tassimo and L'or style coffee pods | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Computers, laptops, monitors, printers and speakers | RE3 recycling centre | |
Cookers, ovens and microwaves | RE3 recycling centre | |
Cooking Oil | Used cooking oil | In a sealed plastic bottle in food waste caddy or RE3 recycling centre |
Correction fluid | Any brand of correction fluid pot, correction tape | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Cosmetics | All brands flexible plastic & metallic plastic tubes from body creams, ointments or moisturisers; flexible plastic packaging from facial cleansing wipes; eye shadow compacts; lip & cheek, highlighter & bronze sticks; plastic roll-on deodorants; flexible single-use mask packaging (inc blue plastic film); mascara tubes and wands; plastic pots; lipsticks, lip glosses and lip balms; personal care & beauty product packaging caps, pumps & trigger sprays (except rigid plastic bottles) |
Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane; also see Maybelline |
Crisp packets | Both foil lined packets and the Pringle type tubes, also popcorn and pretzl packets | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Curtains and other household linens | The Cowshed charity or … | RE3 recycling centre |
DVDs** | RE3 recycling centre | |
Ella's Kitchen snack packets | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane | |
Engine oil | RE3 recycling centre | |
Envelopes | Including those with windows | Black box |
Fire extinguishers | RE3 recycling centre | |
Flower pots and trays | From a garden centre or nursery | All can go to the Flower stall on Gipsy Lane. CANNOT be recycled in the Black Box. |
Fluorescent tubes | RE3 recycling centre | |
Foil and foil trays | Black Box | |
Freezers | RE3 recycling centre | |
Fridges | RE3 recycling centre | |
Furniture** | RE3 recycling centre | |
Garden waste | Ideally compost it yourself. Get Composting subsidised compost bins | Wokingham Borough Council provide either a 240 litre brown wheelie bin collected fortnightly for £60/year (£65 from April 2021) or brown sacks that hold 75 litres and are available 10 for £10 from ETC help shop, or take to RE3 recycling centre |
Gas bottles* | Suppliers such as Calor may refund a deposit if you take the bottle to them | RE3 recycling centre - who will charge you |
General Waste | aka landfill | Blue bag |
Glass bottles and jars | Bottles and jars - please wash before recycling, don't bother removing labels. | Take to bottle banks - see list of recycling points. Metal lids and tops can be left on, or put into kerbside recycling (Black Box). Plastic bottle corks should be discarded (blue bag), real cork can be composted or chopped & used as mulch. Metal cage from champagne etc bottles can be put in Black Box. |
Hair dyes | Hair colourant kits, (except rigid plastic bottles & cardboard packaging) | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Household chemicals | RE3 recycling centre | |
Inkjet cartridges | All inkjet printers. Laserjet cartridges should be returned to the manufacturer for re-use. | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane, RE3 recycling centre. |
Lamps** | RE3 recycling centre | |
Laundry | All brands of flexible laundry washing capsules & pods packaging, tinted fabric conditioner bottles & caps | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Light bulbs | RE3 recycling centre | |
Make up containers | All brands | Maybelline |
Marigold gloves | Durable, disposable and plastic packaging | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Mattresses | RE3 recycling centre | |
Medicines - out of date | Pills and potions | Return to any pharmacy |
Metals (aluminium, brass, copper, steel) | Cutlery, pots and pans | RE3 recycling centre |
Milk bottle & carton tops | Aluminium bottle tops - roll in a ball, put in Black Box plastic carton tops - Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
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Mobile phones | RE3 recycling centre | |
Mobility aids | Zimmer frames, walking sticks and crutches | Return to either the Red Cross or hospital that they were borrowed from |
Oil and pesticide containers | Garden chemicals, motor oil | RE3 recycling centre |
Paint | RE3 recycling centre | |
Paper | Catalogues, brochures and directories, junk mail, flyers, letters and envelopes (including window envelopes), newspapers and magazines, printer paper (white and coloured), , wrapping paper (not foil based) | Black Box. Please try to keep dry - put your blue bag on top of the Black Box. |
Pens | Any brand of pen, felt tip, highlighter, marker, mechanical pencil, eraser pen | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Pesticides | RE3 recycling centre | |
Pet food pouches | All dry food & treat flexible plastic packaging All wet pet food pouches |
Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Plasterboard* | RE3 recycling centre | |
Plastic bottles | Drinks, milk, toiletries, detergent | Black Box |
Plastic pots | Yoghurt, cream, snack or soup pots | Black Box |
Plastic trays | Fruit punnets, meat or cake trays (not black) | Black Box |
Plastic tubs | Sweet tubs, ice cream and margarine tubs | Black Box |
Pots and pans** | RE3 recycling centre | |
Pushchairs, cots, prams, Mosses baskets** | First Days charity are local and will reuse, or … | RE3 recycling centre |
Razor Blades | Disposable ones | Gillette |
Ring pulls (metal) | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane | |
Rubble and hardcore* | RE3 recycling centre | |
School Uniform | First Days charity are local and will reuse, or … | RE3 recycling centre |
Shredded paper | Compost as "brown" matter or failing that | Black Box Shredded paper (only if contained in envelopes) |
Soil* | RE3 recycling centre | |
Spectacles | Local opticians or RE3 | |
Steel tins | Drink cans, food tins, biscuit or sweet tins | Black Box |
Sweet wrappers | All brands, plastic chocolate & sweet pouches & bags; chocolate & sweets multipack outer plastic packaging; individua chocolate bar wrappers; plastic chocolate block wrappers; foil lined sweet wrappers such as Aero and Kit Kat; Ferrero Rocher gold plastic trays, transparent plastic box & outer plastic wrappers & aluminium wrappers (but not the paper cups!) |
Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Tetrapaks | Juice, milk and soup cartons | Black Box |
Textiles | Clothes, shoes, fabric | ASDA and RE3 recycling centre |
Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes | All varieties | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Toys** | First Days charity are local and will reuse, or … | RE3 recycling centre |
Tyres | RE3 recycling centre | |
Water filters | Aqua Optima Evolve, Universal & original water filters | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
White goods (fridge, freezer, washing machines) | RE3 recycling centre | |
Windbreaks, trampolines, rubber dinghies | Wyatt and Jack | Reused to make bags, that you can buy |
Window frames | RE3 recycling centre | |
Wipes (home cleaning) | All brands of flexible wipe packaging & tinted rigid plastic tubs (used for home cleaning) | Ali's recycling at the ETC help shop in Radstock Lane |
Wood and timber | Oxford Wood Recycling who collect or | RE3 recycling centre |
*Charges apply
**Re-use scheme
Priority order for re-purposing the stuff you have finished with
1) Reduce the amount of resources you use
2) Reuse - could somebody else use it ?
3) Recycle - can the material be used to make something else?