Stroud District - recycling made easy!
You can contact your recycling team by calling 01453 754 424, email recycling@stroud.gov.uk or visit www.stroud.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 6am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling team if you are unsure of your collection day, for a collection calendar, 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
- Newspapers & magazines
- Paper (white & coloured)
- Catalogues & brochures
- Envelopes please remove windows
- Junk Mail
- Telephone directories
- Yellow pages
- Wrapping paper
- Card & Cardboard
- Shredded paper
- Hardback catalogues
food & drink cans
- Food cans/tins
- Drink cans/tins
- Pet food cans/tins
- Foil
- Aerosols
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
- Window and mirror glass
- Sheet glass
- Spectacles
- Lightbulbs
- Other glass (eg drinking glass)
Please rinse No lids, corks or caps please. Labels can be left on
mixed plastic bottles
- Plastic bottles
- Black or brown plastic bottles
- Plastic tubs
- Plastric trays
- Any other plastic
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.
batteries
- Household non-rechargeable batteries
- Car batteries
- Re-chargeable batteries
Please bag separately at top of box
You can compost in two 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 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!
- Arlingham, Passage Road Car Park
- Berkeley, Rear of Marybrook Street Car Park
- Bisley, The Bear Inn
- Brookthorpe, Whaddon Pound Farm
- Bussage, The Boys Club
- Cainscross, Co-op Stores
- Cam, Tesco Car Park
- Chalford Hill, Highfield Road
- Coaley, Village Hall Car Park
- Cranham, Scout HQ
- Dudbridge, Sainsburys
- Dursley, Kingshill Public House Layby
- Dursley, Rackfield Car Park
- Eastcombe, Thomas Keble School
- Eastington, The Kings Head Public House
- Frampton on Severn, Car Park
- Hardwick, Village Hall Car Park
- Horsley, The Village Hall
- Kings Stanley, Car Park
- Longney, School Car Park
- Minchinhampton, School Road
- Miserden, Car Park (next to school)
- Nailsworth, Old Market
- North Nibley, The Black Horse Layby
- Oakridge, The Butchers Arms
- Painswick, Car Park
- Rodborough, Focus
- Saul, Church Lane
- Stonehouse, High Street Car Park
- Stonehouse, Oldends Lane Playing Field
- Stroud, Cheapside Car Park
- Stroud, Leisure Centre Coach Park
- Stroud, London Road Car Park
- Stroud, Tesco Car Park
- Thrupp, Brimscombe Layby
- Whiteway, Village Hall
- Whitminster, Village Hall
- Woodchester, The Layby Frogmarsh A46
- Wotton Under Edge, Potters Pond Car Park
At Household Recycling Centres (formerly known as “The Tip”) you can recycle a wide range of materials. Your nearest sites are:
Pyke Quarry, Nr Horsley
Two miles west of Horsley on the B4058 Wotton Under Edge Road.
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
Hempsted, Nr Gloucester
One mile from Gloucester Docks, along Llanthony Road.
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 the Household Recycling Centre?
- Batteries - car, motorbike & household
- Books
- Cans
- Card & cardboard
- Catalogues & brochures
- DIY waste/ rubble & building materials
- Flat glass
- Fluorescent tubes
- Foil
- Garden waste
- Glass bottes & jars
- Household & garden chemicals
- Junk mail
- Lightbulbs - including low energy lightbulbs
- Mixed glass
- Newspapers & magazines
- Oil - cooking oil
- Oil - waste engine oil
- Paper (mixed)
- Plastic bottles
- Scrap metal
- Shoes
- Spectacles
- Telephone directories
- Televisions & monitors
- Textiles & clothes
- Gas bottles
- Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
- White goods - washing machine, fridges/freezers
- 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.