What to do with your rubbish

A

Aluminium cans and aerosols

• Put in your brown bin or black box
• Visit a recycling bank
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Asbestos

• Visit a household waste and recycling centre
• Get asbestos removed

B

Batteries

• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Books

• Put them in your blue bin or no-blo bag
• Visit a recycling bank - check with your local one
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Bric a brac

• Car boot sale
• 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

• Use Bulky Bob's collection service

Business waste

• Phone 0161 770 6644

C

Cans

• Put in your brown bin or black box
• Visit a recycling bank
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Cardboard

• Re-use for storage, or playing with kids
• Put in your blue bin or no-blo bag.
• Visit a recycling bank
• 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
• Visit a recycling bank
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Carpets

• Use Bulky Bob's collection service
• Car boot sale
• Mend, re-upholster, or restore old furniture, before buying new

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

CDs, tapes, records

• Visit a recycling bank - check with your local one

Christmas trees

You can chop up your tree and recycle it in the green bin, if you have one or you can take it to a household waste and recycling centre.

Clothes and textiles

• Car boot sale
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre
• 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

Computers

• ITUK: 0161 230 6644
• Computer Recycling Centre Salford: 0161 287 8913
• Computer Aid International: 0870 1212101

Cookers (See ‘White goods’)

D

Dead animals

• The Council will removal dead animals found on the public highway within 24 hours. Phone 0161 770 6644 to report.

E

Electrical appliances

• Use Bulky Bob's collection service
• 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

F

Foil

• Put in your brown bin or black box
• Visit a recycling bank
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Food Waste

• Put it in your green food caddy or garden waste bin
• Put it in your garden compost bin (not meat, dairy or cooked food products). See Composting.

Fridges/freezers (see ‘White goods’)

Furniture

• Use Bulky Bob's collection service
• Car boot sale
• Mend, re-upholster, or restore old furniture, before buying new
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G

Garden waste

• Put in your green bin (no soil or turf)
• Compost - See Composting.
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre
• Hire a skip for large amounts of soil and garden waste

Gas bottles

• Re-fill them
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Glass jars and bottles

• Re-use as storage
• Put in your brown bin or black box
• Visit a recycling bank
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Light bulbs, Pyrex, crystal, window glass, and mirrors cannot be recycled. Wrap carefully and put in your grey bin, or take to a a household waste and recycling centre

H

Hazardous waste

• Contact the Environment Agency

I

Ink cartridges

• Re-fill

J

Japanese Knotweed

Japanese Knotweed can’t go in your food and garden bin and can’t be taken to your local Recycling Centre.

Japanese knotweed is classed as hazardous waste and removal of this should be done under the guidance provided by the Environment Agency.

For more information please visit www.gov.uk.

Junk mail (see ‘Paper’)

• To stop getting junk mail visit the MPS website

K

Kitchen waste (see ‘Food Waste’)

L

Litter

• To report litter or flytipping phone 0161 770 6644
• Get involved, join Litterwatchers (phone 0161 770 6644)

M

Medicines

• Clean empty bottles can be recycled as glass or plastic.

N

Nappies

• Real Nappy Voucher
• Use biodegradable disposable nappies

O

Oil

• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

P

Paper, magazines, envelopes, cardboard

• Re-use newspaper and magazines for art activities with your children.
• Donate to schools for art activities, or magazines to doctors/ dentists’ surgeries.
• Composting (shredded paper)
• Put in your blue bin or no-blo bag bag
• Visit a recycling bank
• Visit a household waste and 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 bank
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre
• All other plastic items should be put in your grey rubbish bin

R

Receipts 

Please put till and card receipts in your grey (general waste) bin. This is because the type of paper on which receipts are printed, cannot be recycled.

Rubble, bricks, and hardcore

• Hire a skip
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

S

Scrap metal

• Visit a scrap metal merchant
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre
• Use Bulky Bob's collection service

Sharps

• Please do not put sharps in any of your bins at home
• You need to dispose of sharps by following the supplier’s instructions
• You can get a sharps bin on prescription (FP10 prescription form) and it can be returned to your doctor or health centre who have issued the prescription to dispose of when it’s full.

The following pharmacies in Oldham provide a service to dispose of sharps for drug users. This service is not for diabetics who can get a sharps bin on prescription from their doctor.

Site	Address	Town / City	Postcode
Boots Pharmacy - Town SQ	1 Town Square Shopping Centre	Oldham	OL1 1XD
Butler Green Pharmacy	Fields New Road,	Chadderton	OL9 8NH
Gardners Chemist	285 Rochdale Road	Oldham	OL1 2HG
Kamsons Pharmacy	Unit 4 Failsworth Precinct, Sisson Street	Failsworth	M35 0FF
Lloyds Pharmacy - Featherstall Road South	Featherstall road south,	Oldham	OL9 7AY
Seemed Pharmacy	165 Waterloo Street	Oldham	OL4 1EN
Well Pharmacy (Bestway National Chemists)	388-390 Ashton Road,	Oldham	OL8 3HF
Werneth Pharmacy	116 oxford street	Oldham	OL9 7SJ

Sharps can also be taken to: 

Needle Exchange | Rochdale and Oldham (turning-point.co.uk)

Shoes (see clothes)

Steel tins and cans

• Put in your brown bin or black box
• Visit a recycling bank
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

T

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’)

Trade waste

• Phone 0161 770 6644

Tyres

• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

W

White goods e.g. washing machines

• If you are buying new white goods, your supplier may get rid of your old one
• Use Bulky Bob's collection service
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Wood

• Donate timber to your local school
• Reclamation yards will take timber in good condition
• Visit a household waste and recycling centre

Y

Yellow Pages (see 'Paper')