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Recycling In Flats

Crown Heights FlatsRecycling is now even easier if you live in a flat.

A special recycling bag has been produced by the council to help
people that live in flats recycle more. The reusable, hard-wearing
bag can be used to store your recycling in your flat and help you
take it down to your shared bin. The bag comes with leaflets and a magnet to explain what you can and can't recycle through your recycling bin.

The bags are currently being delivered to flats throughout
Basingstoke and Deane, so if you would like to receive a
second one, or have any questions or comments about recycling
in your area, please e-mail recycling@basingstoke.gov.uk or call
01256 844844.

Flat Recycling Bag - It's Simple

All you need to do is fill up your reusable bag with all of your clean and dry paper, card, plastic bottles, tins and cans

Take your bag down to your recycling bin and empty it into the bin

Take your bag back up to your flat and fill it up for the next time

Fill up your bag

Take it down to the bin and empty

Fill it up and use it again


What can I put in my recycling bag/bin?

It is very important that only the items which can be recycled are put into your recycling bag/bin. Dealing with the wrong material is expensive and can sometimes lead to good material being sent for incineration.

By using your bag, you can avoid plastic carrier bags and put the recycling into your bin, clean dry and loose.

Newspapers and magazines


Newspapers and magazines

Junk mail


Junk mail

Envelopes

Envelopes

Telephone directories and catalogues


Telephone directories,
brochures and catalogues

Cardboard packaging


Cardboard packaging
cereal boxes, food packaging,
egg boxes

Greetings cards


Greetings cards


Drinks cans


Drinks cans

Food tins


Food tins
please rinse clean




Plastic bottles
All types including water, fizzy drink, milk,
shampoo, cleaning products (e.g. bleach)
Please remove the lids

 Aerosol cans


Aerosol cans
These are a pressurised container
and are difficult to recycle.

What can't I recycle through my recycling bag/bin?

Yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, plastic food trays


Plastic packaging -
yoghurt pots, margarine tubs,
plastic food trays.

Plastic carrier bags and black sacks


Plastic carrier bags and black sacks
There are no recycling facilities
for these materials. Please
make sure all your recycling is
loose in your bin.




Drink and juice cartons/tetra paks
These contain a mixture of card,
plastic and foil making them very
hard to recycle. There are no recycling facilities in the UK for this material.

Aluminium foil


Aluminium Foil
This is made from a different metal
alloy to aluminium cans and needs to
be recycled separately.
Please recycle your aluminium foil
at a Recycling Site

Polystyrene


Polystyrene




Gift Wrap
This is often made from foil or lined with plastic so cannot be recycled.

Shredded paper


Shredded Paper
Your recycling is sorted using a lot of
automatic sorting equipment which is
unable to recognise small or shredded
pieces of paper.

Glass bottles and jars


Glass bottles and jars
Manual sorting is also used so
glass is unacceptable for health
and safety reasons. Please recycle
your glass bottles and jars at a
Recycling Site

Clothing


Clothing
Good quality clothes can be donated to a local charity shop or placed in a textile bank at a Recycling Site

Shoes


Shoes
Pairs of shoes can be donated to a
local charity shop or placed in a textile bank at a Recycling Site

Some items are not collected from your flat, but can still be recycled. You can take your glass bottles and jars, clothes, shoes, books, aluminium foil and other items to one of over 75 recycling sites throughout the Borough. There is also the Household Waste Recycling Centre on Wade Road which accepts an even greater range of recyclable material, including batteries, fluorescent lamps, wood and green garden waste.

To find out more about our network of recycling sites click here

What Happens Next?

Alton Materials Recovery FacilityAfter collection, all the materials are taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) near Alton. Here mechanical shovels load the material onto conveyor belts for sorting. This is done using hand-sorting, revolving cylindrical sieves, magnets, sophisticated optical identification and air jets! Due to the range of machinery involved it is very important that all the recyclables are placed in your bin loose and not wrapped up in plastic carrier bags or black sacks.

Once the materials are separated, they are baled and
loaded up, ready to be sent off to be recycled into new
materials.




Papers are pulped
and turned into
new newspapers
and magazines




Aluminium cans
are melted down
and turned into
new drinks cans




Tin cans are
melted down
and made into
new food cans



Plastic bottles
are shredded
and made into
many new things
including
new fleeces

For further information on recycling please telephone our Customer Contact Centre on 01256 844844 or email: recycling@basingstoke.gov.uk


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