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All items must be clean and empty of any food or drink.
Plastic pots, tubs and trays that you put in your mixed recycling bin along with your plastic bottles, aerosols, foil, foil trays, drink cans, food tins, glass bottles and jars are delivered to our Materials Recovery Facility in Sharston. Here your plastic pots, tubs and trays are separated and sent to a processor to be recycled into plastic pellets.
Yes, lids from clean tubs such as butter tubs, ice cream tubs etc can be kept on and recycled in your mixed recycling bin.
If you can easily remove a bottle top we ask that all plastic tops are taken off the and placed in the general waste bin. If the bottle top is attached, make sure it is securely fastened before recycling it.
Loose bottle tops fall off the bottles during the separating process and end up in the glass containers which can ruin the glass recycling.
Recycling that’s covered in old food is less likely to be recycled. Old food also damages the sorting equipment at the Materials Recovery Facility.
Hard plastics such as plastic garden furniture or children’s toys that are no longer usable can be recycled at your local Recycling Centre.
Hard plastic cannot be recycled in your mixed recycling bin as they are often too large and cannot be recycled in the same way as plastic pots, tubs, trays and plastic bottles.
Yes, plastic pots, tubs and trays can be recycled in the mixed recycling container along with plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, food tins, drink cans, empty aerosols and foil.
Plastic packaging like plastic bags, bread bags and film are made of low-grade plastic which are difficult to recycle. For that reason, plastic bags and film are currently collected in the general waste bin, which is sent by rail to an energy from waste plant in Runcorn where it is burned to generate electricity. However, we are planning to collect these types of plastic for recycling in the future once our new materials recovery facility is operational in 2026/27.
You can take soft plastics to most large supermarkets to be recycled.
You can also squash your plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays to make more space in your bin.
If you stack your plastic pots, tubs and trays inside each other it should take up a lot less space.
If you find your mixed recycling bin is still getting full, take a look at our tips for reducing waste or contact your council to see if you can get a bigger bin.
Yes, anyone living in a flat or apartment where you share recycling bins with your neighbours, can recycle plastic pots, tubs and trays in the mixed recycling bin.
The little numbers in a triangle that you see on the bottom of rigid plastics is a “resin identification code”
The symbol tells you what type of plastic the item is made out of. It does not tell you if it is recyclable or not. The symbol was adopted in the 1980’s before the triangular arrows became linked to recycling. The numbers range from 1 to 7 and are all different types of plastic, some of which can be recycled easily, but not all of them. Please refer to the information given to you by your Council for what is accepted in your mixed Recycling bin.
Reducing how much plastic we use and recycling as much as we possibly can helps to create a healthy more sustainable place to live and can even save you money. Swapping to re-usable or plastic free products, items such as re-usable water bottles, coffee mugs, bags, fruit and veg bags and re-usable containers all help to reduce the amount of plastic you use and throw away.
In Greater Manchester we currently only recycle plastic pots, tubs, trays and plastics bottles.
Select your local council logo to find out about recycling in your area, and get helpful information for contacting your local council.
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