Plastics
Plastics banks have two sections one for plastic trays, yogurt pots, plastic bottles and other 'hard' plastic and one for plastic bags, film and wrappings.
Please remember to wash and squash!
Aluminium Foil
- Aluminium foil must go into special foil banks and NOT into the can banks
- Clean foil only please
- Foil milk bottle tops, tops of cartons, baking and freezer trays, kitchen foil, cigarette and tobacco foil (without the backing paper) can all go into the special foil banks
Please no metalised plastic, such as crisp packets or tea bag packets
Cans
- All drinks cans and food tins go in together (aluminium and steel)
- Please wash out food tins, but you don't need to remove the labels if you don't want to
- Aerosols can go in can banks as long as they're completely empty and plastic lids are removed
Steel and aluminium cans are sorted using a magnet. The cans are melted down in a furnace and the finished ingots are rolled into thin sheets, which are then made into brand new cans and tins.
Glass
- Glass bottles and jars only please
- Please wash out jars and remove bottle tops and corks
- No need to remove labels these are burnt off in the furnace
- Please sort the colours into the correct bank clear, green or brown (blue glass goes in the green bank)
- Bottles with a coloured coating can be recycled, as this will be burnt off in the furnace. To find out the original colour of the bottle, check the top where the cap was
- Please no Pyrex, milk bottles, plate glass, ceramics or light bulbs
All glass bottles and jars collected go to Alloa in Scotland, where they are melted down in a furnace and turned into new glass bottles and jars
Paper and Card
- All types of paper and card can go into the paper banks, including: newspapers,magazines, envelopes, junk mail, telephone directories/Yellow Pages, catalogues,old greetings cards, cardboard, card packaging (eg cereal packets)
- Be careful to remove any polystyrene, plastic inserts or wrappers first
Plastics
- Plastic bottles of all kinds and plastic containers, trays etc can go in the 'plastic bottle' compartment
- Please try to wash and squash your plastic first.
- Please remove bottle tops first and put them in the 'plastic bottle' compartment too
- All types of plastic bags and wrappers can go into the 'plastic bag' compartment
- Please do not put polystyrene in the banks
Plastics are recycled into a variety of different products, including garden and street furniture and drain pipes
Textiles
- You can place any clean dry clothing, new underwear, footwear and household textiles into a clothing and shoe bank
- Please put items into plastic carrier bags before placing in the textile banks (all plastic bags will be recycled)
- Tie pairs of shoes together
- Rags can go in the textile banks, but please put them into separate bags and clearly label them 'rags'
- Please, no pillows, duvets, cushions, wellington boots, odd shoes or dirty, wet or stained clothes
When recycling:
- be considerate to nearby residents and use the recycling banks during daylight hours
- help to keep recycle points clean and tidy. Take empty bags home with you where they can be disposed of properly (or recycle them at plastics banks)
- try to combine trips to the recycle point with other journeys, such as going shopping or to school. This way the environmental impact of the journey is kept to a minimum
For details of locations of recycle points in Eden see 'recycle points'
For Further Information:
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Contact: Recycling and Environment Officers, Mansion House, Penrith CA11 7YG
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Telephone: 01768 817817
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Email: customer.services@eden.gov.uk
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Fax: 01768 890732
