Recycling Banks

Recycling Bring Sites - can you help us?
 
We are very grateful for the support residents give to our recycling services at our bring sites around the borough, particularly over the Christmas period.
 
Because of the inclement weather and the holiday period, we are expecting a huge increase in the use of our recycling sites over the next couple of weeks.
 
If it is at all possible we are asking that you spread out your visits to the recycling sites over the holiday period in order to minimise overspills.
 
We are increasing our attendance at the sites and the emptying of the containers to meet as best we can the demand for this service.

 

There are over 50 recycling sites around Tonbridge and Malling for the collection and recycling of newspaper and magazines, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, cans, textiles and shoes and CDs, books and we have recently introduced plastic bottle recycling at eight sites. The sites vary in size and the types of material that can be collected for recycling.

pdf logo A list of sites (PDF 60 Kb) can be viewed or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat(the council is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites). This list provides details of each site by location and materials that can be collected.

Plastic bottles.

Banks for the recycling of plastic bottles can be found at;

  • Burham Village hall, Burham
  • Ightham Village Hall, Ightham
  • Sainsbury's in Quarry Wood, Aylesford
  • Rocfort Road car park in Snodland
  • High Street car park in West Malling
  • Tesco's car park, Leybourne Way in Larkfield
  • ASDA car park at Kings Hill
  • Stangate Quarry Entrance, Quarry Hill Road, Borough Green
  • Tonbridge Farm Sports Ground car park, Darenth Avenue in Tonbridge
  • The Angel Centre car park in Tonbridge.

Specialist contractor, Grosvenor Waste Management Ltd, has been appointed to manage the new service and will collect and sort the plastic bottles from the banks at least twice a week and forward for recycling.

All empty plastic bottles can be placed in the recycling banks. This includes plastic bottles that contained: fizzy drinks, mineral water, squashes, cooking oils, milk (not cartons), fruit juice, washing up liquids, detergents, fabric conditioners, bleach, cleaning fluids, shampoo, bubble bath, shower gel and conditioner. Residents are asked to remove lids from bottles before squashing the bottles and placing both the bottles and the lids into the banks.

Please do not to put yoghurt pots, food trays tetra packs, plastic bags or bottles that contained motor oil, paint, anti-freeze or pesticides in the banks as these are NOT suitable for recycling.

Glass

Glass bottles and jars should be separated, by colour into the green, clear and brown glass banks. Blue or mixed coloured bottles should be placed in the green bottle banks.

Glass placed in these banks is collected by Veolia Environmental Services ( formerly Cleanaway) in one of two specialist vehicles. These vehicles have separate compartments to keep the glass colours apart. The glass is then sold to near-by re processors to be turned into glass cullet that is used to make new glass bottles.

Cans

Food and drink cans can be recycled at the yellow can banks at a number of recycling sites. Please ensure cans are rinsed out to prevent pests being attracted to the smell.

Newspapers and magazines

Newspapers, magazines, holiday brochures, catalogues, junk mail, all telephone directories including Yellow Pages, white office/copy paper can all be collected in the blue paper banks. All paper is taken to Aylesford Newsprint ,which is within our borough, for recycling.

Cardboard

Nearly all types of cardboard can be recycled at the brown cardboard recycling banks. This includes brown corrugated cardboard which is often used for packaging around bulky items like televisions, flat grey cardboard, typically used in cereal and shoe boxes and toilet roll tubes and shiny cardboard used around ready meals. Christmas and birthday cards can also be recycled or composted. You may also place brown envelopes in the brown cardboard banks.

Textiles

Virtually every kind of textile, from t-shirts to saris to school uniforms, shoes, trainers, football kits, hats, belts, jackets, towels, bed sheets or curtains can be collected in the textile banks. The material will then be sent for recycling or if it is of a suitable quality for re-use. You may choose to take re-usable textiles to a charity of your choice.

We are always keen to expand the number of sites and are happy to investigate suggestions for potential locations. I

The council operates a number of collection services for refuse , recycling , green waste and bulky goods . We can also provide you with ideas to help you compost or reduce food waste or re-useother waste. We also provide street cleansing services. Please note that commercial refuse collections operate under a separate arrangement.

An online list is provided to help you recycle, compost or dispose of more than 150 different types of household waste.

Collection services may vary during Easter and Christmas Public Holidays.

Further Information

To contact the Waste Services Team, telephone 01732 876147, e-mail waste.services@tmbc.gov.uk or SMS text message to 07781 482959.

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