Aluminium cans and aerosols
Put in your brown bin or black box
Visit a recycling centre
Asbestos
Batteries
Bikes
Contact Gremlins Cycle Library at inbox@gremlinscc.org or on 0161 284 3733
Books
Put them in your blue bin or no-blo bag
Use the Swap it website
Donate to a charity
Visit a recycling centre - check with your local one
Bric a brac
Car boot sale
Donate to a charity
Donate to your local school, playgroup, or doctors’ surgery (for toys and games)
Brochures (see ‘Paper’)
Building materials (see ‘Rubble, bricks, and hardcore’)
Bulky waste
Business waste (See ‘trade waste’)
Cans (see ‘Aluminium’ or ‘Steel’)
Cardboard
Re-use for storage, or playing with kids
Put in your blue bin or no-blo bag. Large boxes should be flattened and put next to your paper recycling container
Visit a recycling centre
Visit a Household Waste and Recycling Centre.
Compost it (shred first)
Cards
Put in your blue bin or no-blo bag
Cut up cards to use as gift tags or for art activities with kids
Playgroups, nurseries, or schools may collect cards
There is a Christmas card collection scheme at supermarkets and stationery shops
Visit a recycling centre
Visit a Household Waste and Recycling Centre.
Carpets (see ‘Furniture’)
Carrier bags
Re-use bags (take them to the supermarket again, or use them as bin liners)
Many supermarkets have carrier bag recycling bins at their stores or sell ‘bags for life’
Cars
Phone: 0161 770 6644 to report an abandoned car
Catalogues (See ‘Paper’)
CDs, tapes, records
Donate to a charity
Visit a recycling centres - check with your local one
Christmas trees
Look out in the press at Christmas for futher ways to recycle your tree
Clothes and textiles
Car boot sale
Donate to a charity. Some charities give out sacks that are collected from your door.
Some charities will take unrepairable clothing for shredding and re-use as stuffing (Oxfam Wastesaver - phone: 01484 542021 or The Salvation Army - phone: 01933 441086)
Crockery and cutlery
Re-use as storage or pot plant holders
Donate to a charity
Computers
ITUK: 0161 230 6644
Computer Recycling Centre Salford: 0161 287 8913
Computer Aid International: 0870 1212101
Cookers (See ‘White goods’)
Dead animals
24-hour free removal service. Phone 0161 770 6644 to arrange
Drinks cans (See ‘Aluminium cans’)
Electrical appliances
If in reasonable condition some charities will take them to refurbish (Emmaus Mossley - 01457 838608)
Visit a Household Waste and Recycling Centre - un-repairable electrical appliances
Envelopes (See ‘Paper)
Foil
Put in your brown bin or black box
Visit a recycling centre
Food Waste
Put it in your green food caddy
Compost (not meat, dairy and cooked food products). See Composting.
Fridges/freezers (see ‘White goods’)
Furniture
Car boot sale.
Mend, re-upholster, or restore old furniture, before buying new
Donate to a charity
Garden waste
Put in your green bin (no soil or turf)
Compost - See Composting.
Hire a skip for large amounts of soil and garden waste
Gas bottles
Re-fill them
Glass jars and bottles
Re-use as storage
Put in your brown bin or black box
Visit a recycling centre
Light bulbs, Pyrex, crystal, window glass, and mirrors cannot be recycled. Wrap carefully and put in your greybin, or take to a Household Waste and Recycling Centre.
Hazardous waste
Contact the Environment Agency
Ink cartridges
Re-fill
Some charities deal with ink cartridges
Junk mail (see ‘Paper’)
To stop getting junk mail phone 0845 703 4599 or visit the DMA website
Kitchen waste (see ‘Food Waste’)
Litter
To report litter or flytipping phone 0161 770 6644.
Get involved, join Litterwatchers
Magazines (See ‘Paper’)
Medicines
Clean empty bottles can be recycled as glass or plastic.
Mobile phones
Some charities collect mobile phones
Nappies
Contact.Oldham Council for a free washable nappy trial
Use biodegradable disposable nappies
Oil
Visit a Household Waste and Recycling Centre.
Paper
Re-use newspaper and magazines for art activities with your children.
Donate to schools for art activities, or magazines to doctors/ dentists’ surgeries.
Compost (shredded paper)
Put in your blue bin or no-blo bag bag
Visit a recycling centre
Plastic bottles
Re-use for storage, or in the garden for covering plants.
Put in your brown bin or black box
Visit a recycling centre
All other plastic items should be put in your grey rubbish bin
Rubble, bricks, and hardcore
Hire a skip
Scrap metal
Visit a scrap metal merchant
Free collection service for white goods and large electrical items. Phone 0161 770 6644 to arrange a collection from Bulky Bobs
Shoes (see clothes)
Spectacles
Donate to a charity
Steel tins and cans
Put in your brown bin or black box
Visit a recycling centre
Tools
Your local DIY shop may refurbish tools
Donate to Tools for Self Reliance. Phone 02380 869697 to arrange collection
Recycle as scrap metal (see ‘Scrap metal’)
Toys/games (See ‘Bric a Brac’)
Trade waste
Phone 0161 770 6644
Tyres
Washing machines (see ‘White goods’)
White goods
Donate to a charity
If you are buying new white goods, your supplier may get rid of your old one
Free collection service for bulky items such as fridges and freezers, cookers and all large electrical items. Phone 0161 770 6644 to arrange collection from Bulky Bobs
Wood
Donate timber to your local school
Reclamation yards will take timber in good condition
Yellow Pages (see 'Paper')