Cheltenham - recycling made easy!
You can contact your recycling team by calling 01242 264 244, email cleansing@cheltenham.gov.uk or visit www.cheltenham.gov.uk for more details
Please ensure ashes are fully cooled before being brought for disposal at the Household Recycling Centres. Hot ash is a fire hazard
- collection
- composting
- recycling banks
- household recycling centres
Collections are fortnightly, normally on the same day as your refuse. Please put your recycling box out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement box, or assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.
These are the materials you can put in your green recycling box
mixed paper
- mixed paper
- Newspapers & magazines
- Paper (white & coloured)
- Catalogues & brochures
- Envelopes please tear out plastic windows please tear out plastic windows
- Wrapping paper
- Card & Cardboard
- Shredded paper
- Yellow Pages / Telephone directories
- Junk mail
- Hardback catalogues
food & drink cans
- Food cans/tins
- Drink cans/tins
- Pet food cans/tins
- Foil
Please rinse. Labels can be left on. Put sharp lids inside cans and crush
glass bottles & jars
- Glass bottles
- Glass jars
- Broken glass
- Milk bottles
- Pyrex
- Mirror glass
- Sheet glass
- Spectacles
- Other glass (eg drinking glass)
Please rinse No lids, corks or caps please. Labels can be left on
lightweight cardboard
- Cereal boxes
- Egg boxes
- Paper roll liners
- Food/toothpaste boxes
- Tetra Pak eg drink cartons
- Soiled Packaging
- Large cardboard boxes*
When possible, put your card inside another box!. Items marked* can be recycled at the Swindon Road Recycling Centre where you can also recycle textiles, shoes and garden waste.
You can compost in three ways
1. Home Composting
Using a compost bin or heap is the best option for the environment and your garden. Also, you can compost kitchen waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings as well as garden waste.
Compost bins can be bought for as little as £17. To find out more, call 0845 076 0223.
2. Garden Waste Collection
If you currently receive a free garden waste collection service using a green sack, please continue to use the service. Garden waste only, no food/kitchen scraps.
Collections are fortnightly, normally on the same day as your refuse. For a collection calendar or further information, please contact the Recycling Team.
3. Garden Waste Composting at your Household Recycling Centre
You can also recycle excess garden waste at your Household Recycling Centre. Garden waste only, no food/kitchen scraps.
DID YOU KNOW?
Organic materials such as grass and leaves do not break down properly when buried in landfill sites.
Instead, they produce a liquid pollutant (leachate) and a gas that contributes towards global warming (methane).
However, if we compost these materials we will:
- Reduce the amount of waste going to landfill
- Reduce pollution to our environment
- Return valuable nutrients back to our soil
To complement recycling collections from home, there is a wide range of recycling banks available for recycling a greater variety of materials.
Please remember to wash and squash any plastic bottles and rinse out your tins and cans!
- Bath Road Car Park
- Bath Terrace Car Park
- Brooklyn Road, St Marks Community Centre
- Caernarvon Road, Morrisons
- Church Piece Car Park
- Edinburgh Place Car Park
- High Street Car Park
- Imjin Road, Priors Playing Field
- Keynsham Road, Sandford Pool Car Park
- King Alfred Way, Q.E. II Playing Field
- London Road, Sixways Car Park
- Malvern Road, Honeybourne Line Entrance
- Manor Road, Sainsbury’s
- North Place Car Park
- Priors Road, Sainsbury's
- St James Street Car Park
- Swindon Road, Recycling Centre
- Tewkesbury Road, Tesco
- Tommy Taylor’s Lane, Prince of Wales Stadium
- Whaddon Road, Cheltenham Town FC
At Household Recycling Centres (formerly known as “The Tip”) you can recycle a wide range of materials. Your nearest sites are:
Swindon Road, Cheltenham
Open 7 days a week (except Christmas Day and New Year's Day)
- Monday - Friday 7:30am – 7:30pm (summer) and 7:30am - 6:30pm (winter)
- Saturday 7:30am - 4:00pm
- Sunday/Bank Holidays 9:00am – 1:00pm
If you have any queries please contact the Household Recycling Centre Helpline on 01242 264 244
What can I recycle at Swindon Road?
- Batteries - car & motorbike (Household Swindon Road)
- Books
- Cans
- Card & cardboard
- Catalogues & brochures
- Clothes & shoes
- Engine oil
- Flourescent Tubes
- Foil (Swindon Road)
- Garden waste
- Glass bottes & jars
- Mixed plastic bottles - including plastic lids
- Newspapers & magazines
- Paper - mixed
- White goods - washing machine, fridges/freezers
- Telephone directories
- Televisions
- Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
- Scrap Metal
- Wood & timber - clean
- Yellow Pages
- Animal waste
- Asbestos
- Car parts
- Clinical waste
- Business waste
- DIY waste
- Gas bottles
- Hazardous waste
- Paint
- Other types of plastic
- Other household chemicals
- Trade waste
- Tyres
Wingmoor Farm, Nr Bishops Cleeve
Half mile west of Bishop’s Cleeve on the road to Stoke Orchard.
Open 7 days a week (except Christmas Day and New Year's Day)
- Opening hours: 9am – 6:15pm all year round
If you have any queries please contact the Household Recycling Centre Helpline on 01242 680 010
What can I recycle at Wingmoor Farm?
- Batteries - car
- Batteries - household
- Books
- Cans - food, drink & pet food
- Card & cardboard
- Catalogues
- DIY waste/rubble
- Fluorescent tubes
- Foil
- Garden waste
- Gas bottles
- Glass bottles & jars
- Household chemicals
- Junk mail
- Lightbulbs
- Oil - cooking oil
- Oil - waste engine oil
- Paper - mixed
- Plastic bottles
- Scrap metal
- Shoes
- Spectacles
- Telephone directories
- Televisions
- Textiles
- Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
- White goods - fridges etc
- Wood & timber
- Yellow Pages
- Clinical waste
- Business waste
- Asbestos - please call the helpline above for advice
Changes to the Household Recycling Centres from October 2008
It is now necessary to book an appointment to bring a van, pick-up or vehicle with a trailer to any of Gloucestershire county Council’s Household Recycling Centres. Small trailers with a load space up to 6ft by 4ft do not need to book.
To make an appointment please phone: 0845 602 9344 (lines open 9am – 5pm Mon to Fri) giving 24 hours notice. Proof of residency will be required on your visit.
Please note you cannot make appointments by phoning the County or local Councils
The Household Recycling Centres cannot accept any business waste. It is illegal for HRCs to accept any waste from businesses. All materials deposited at the Centres will be monitored to ensure that businesses and traders are not using these Centres.