Item you wish to recycle | Examples etc | Where they go |
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Aerosol cans | Deodorants, air fresheners, anti-freeze cans | Green Bag / 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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
Aluminium cans and steel tins | Drink cans, food tins, biscuit or sweet tins | Green Bag / 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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
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 accepts bikes in any condition, or will get your old bike back on the road; charges apply | Reading Bicycle Kitchen or RE3 recycling centre |
Bicycle tyres* & tubes | Tubes (not slime) are recycled into new ones, tyres are also recycled, but there is a £1 charge per tyre. | Reading Bicycle Kitchen |
Biscuit, cracker and cake bar packets | Digestive, fig roll ….. Whatever you enjoy | Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
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 | Green Bag / Black Box |
Carpets | RE3 recycling centre | |
Cartons (Tetrapak) | Juice, milk and soup cartons | Green Bag / Black Box |
Catalogues | Green Bag / Black Box | |
Cheese packaging | All brands - plastic wrappers, film, pouches, labels & plastic nets and all Babybel packaging | Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
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 | |
Cling film | Co-op stores | |
Coffee pods and coffee bean pouches | Tassimo and L'or style coffee pods | Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church; 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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
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Engine oil | RE3 recycling centre | |
Envelopes | Including those with windows | Green Bag / 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 Green Bag / Black Box. |
Fluorescent tubes | RE3 recycling centre | |
Foil and foil trays | Green Bag / 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 (Green Bag / 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 Green Bag / Black Box. |
Hair dyes | Hair colourant kits, (except rigid plastic bottles & cardboard packaging) | Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church, 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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
Light bulbs | RE3 recycling centre | |
Make up containers | All brands | Maybelline |
Marigold gloves | Durable, disposable and plastic packaging | Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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 Green Bag / Black Box plastic carton tops - Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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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) | Green Bag / Black Box. Please try to keep dry - put your blue bag on top of the Green Bag / Black Box. |
Pens | Any brand of pen, felt tip, highlighter, marker, mechanical pencil, eraser pen | Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
Plasterboard* | RE3 recycling centre | |
Plastic bottles | Drinks, milk, toiletries, detergent | Green Bag / Black Box |
Plastic pots | Yoghurt, cream, snack or soup pots | Green Bag / Black Box |
Plastic trays | Fruit punnets, meat or cake trays (not black) | Green Bag / Black Box |
Plastic tubs | Sweet tubs, ice cream and margarine tubs | Green Bag / 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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church | |
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 | Green Bag / Black Box Shredded paper (only if contained in envelopes) |
Soft plastic packaging |
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Co-op stores |
Soil* | RE3 recycling centre | |
Spectacles | Local opticians or RE3 | |
Steel tins | Drink cans, food tins, biscuit or sweet tins | Green Bag / 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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church Co-op stores |
Tetrapaks | Juice, milk and soup cartons | Green Bag / Black Box |
Textiles | Clothes, shoes, fabric | ASDA and RE3 recycling centre |
Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes | All varieties | Ali's recycling at the ETC offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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 offices in Radstock Lane or Trinity Church |
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?