Tewkesbury Borough - recycling made easy!
You can contact your recycling team by calling 01684 272 354, email recycling@tewkesbury.gov.uk or visit www.tewkesbury.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 every other week, alternating with your refuse collection. Please put your blue wheeled bin out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement bin, or assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.
These are the materials you can put in your blue recycling wheeled bin:
mixed paper & card
- Newspapers and magazines
- Shredded paper
- Junk mail
- Telephone directories
- White office paper
- Envelopes (please remove plastic windows)
- Card and cardboard
- Cereal boxes
- Food packaging boxes
- Egg boxes
- Small quantities of corrugated cardboard
- Paperback books
- Hardback books (please remove covers)
- Greeting cards and wrapping paper
- Card food packaging (clean)
- Wet or dirty paper
- Wallpaper
cartons
- Tetra-Pak style cartons (please rinse all cartons clean)
food & drink cans
- Food cans
- Drinks cans
- Pet food cans
- Aerosol cans
- Metal sweet and biscuit tins
- Dirty cans
- Pet food pouches/crisp packets
- Paint tins
Please rinse. Labels can be left on. Put sharp lids inside cans and crush
mixed glass
- Clean glass jars
- Glass bottles (all colours)
- Window panes
- Pyrex dishes/crockery
- Light bulbs
- Glass milk bottles
Please rinse No lids, corks or caps please. Labels can be left on
mixed plastics
- Plastic bottles (all types)
- Milk / juice bottles
- Cleaning / bleach / detergent bottles
- Toiletry bottles
- Yoghurt pots
- Fruit punnets
- Food tubs/ ice-cream tubs
- Food/ meat trays
- Cling film, film wrapping or covering
- Carrier bags
- Bin liners
- Plastic toys and other non food or drink packaging plastic
- Plant pots
- Polystyrene
- Broken plastic e.g. electrical items
Food waste collection
Each property has been issued with two food waste caddies. A larger caddy for the outside to present the food waste for a weekly collection, and a smaller caddy to collect the food waste in the kitchen. Tip the contents from the kitchen caddy when necessary into the larger caddy and present the larger caddy at the kerbside along with your blue or green bin (depending on the collection week).
Both food waste caddies are lockable, rotate the handle forward to lock the caddy. Store the larger caddy out of direct sunlight and keep locked at all times.
Kitchen caddies can be lined with compostable liners, tissue paper or newspaper. Caddies must not be lined with plastic carrier or shopping bags. Food waste presented in these bags will not be collected. More information on food waste liners can be found here.
Both caddies can be washed clean and are dishwasher safe below 60oC. In some blocks of flats, a communal wheeled bin for your food waste may have been provided. Please contact your housing provider or management company to find out how the food waste collection is managed.
These are the items you can put in your food waste container
- Food - cooked and uncooked
- Raw and uncooked fruit and vegetables
- Meat and fish, including bones and skin
- Cheese and other dairy products
- Eggs and egg shells
- Small amount of liquids, oil and fat (including solid fats such as lard)
- Bread, cakes and pastry
- Plastic (including carrier bags and non-approved biodegradable liners)
- Packaging of any kind
- Metal and glass
- Any other household waste
- Animal faeces
- Animal bedding
- Pet litter
- Pet carcasses
- Cardboard (please recycle in blue bin)
- Nappies
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
All residents can receive a garden waste collection service using a brown wheeled bin. The service can be purchased from the borough council for £30 (this is an annual service charge rather than a one-off bin cost).
Garden waste only, no food/kitchen scraps. Collections are fortnightly, normally on the same day as your recycling. 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
If you have excess recycling or would prefer to take your recycling to a bring site, the following sites will remain open for a short period of time.
Please remember to wash and squash any plastic bottles and rinse out your tins and cans!
- Bishops Cleeve, Tesco
- Brockworth, Tesco Recycling Machine
- Brockworth, Tesco Tetra Pak Bank
- Churchdown, Parish Council Offices
- Churchdown, Chapel Hay Car Park
- Tewkesbury, Spring Gardens
- Tewkesbury, Morrisons
- Winchcombe, Back Lane Car Park
At Household Recycling Centres (formerly known as “The Tip”) you can recycle a wide range of materials. Your nearest sites are:
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
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
- 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.