These can be recycled in your black wheeled bin.

These can be placed in the black wheeled bin.

These can't be recycled at present on the new recycling service and we do not currently have any other recycling route for them. These items are difficult to recycle as they are generally made from more than one type of plastic. You can reuse the pots and tubs for household storage, or planting seeds in.

Yes.

Your cat litter has to go into your grey bin, please tie in a bag and put in your bin.

To avoid smells, rinse out your plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars and food and drinks cans.

Please squash your plastic bottles (remove tops), collapse cardboard boxes and squash tins and cans. Bin lids must be flat or your bin will not be emptied for health & safety reasons. If you are still having problems, please contact the Council for advice.

No - plastic bottles, cans, glass bottles and jars must be placed loose into the correct bin.

We offer recycling services to schools in a package with residual waste collections. For further details please send an email to wastemanagement@trafford.gov.uk

Plastic bottles are made out of the type of high value plastics that the reprocessors require. Tops should be removed and put in the grey bin, as they are made out of a different type of plastic. Whilst some food containers are made out of the same type of plastic as plastic bottles, the manufacturing process changes the polymers which means that they cannot be recycled with plastic bottles.

Yes. We provide communal recycling facilities at flats and apartments.

This type of lightbulb should not be put in the black bin for glass, cans and plastic bottles and as they contain mercury, they should not be put into the grey bin for household waste. They should be taken to one of the Household Waste Recycling Centres, located at Chester Road and Woodhouse Lane, off Sinderland Road.

Mixed Paper and Card

Our mixed paper and card is baled into large quantities here in Greater Manchester and then transported to a reprocessor. Around 80% of the paper and card you recycle is made into new products in the UK. This could be anything from newspapers and cardboard boxes to other packaging card. So newspaper you recycle today can be reprocessed and be back in your house as your cereal box.

The remaining 20% of the paper and card you recycle can be sent to Europe or further afield. Rest assured this material is sent as a quality resource for recycling and our systems and controls ensure that this happens. The paper and card is still recycled into the same new items as they would be in the UK.

Glass Bottles and Jars

Your glass bottles and jars are separated by a mechanical sorting process from the other materials that are collected for recycling (food and drinks cans and plastic bottles) and loaded in large quantities in Greater Manchester and then transported to a reprocessor. 100% of the glass that you recycle is made into new products in the UK. This can be anything from new glass bottles and jars, or to be used in building products and insulation. The jam jar you recycle today might be reprocessed into loft insulation.

Food and Drinks Cans (including Foil)

Your food and drinks cans are separated in Greater Manchester by a mechanical sorting process from the other materials that are collected for recycling (glass bottles and jars and plastic bottles). The aluminium and steel is baled separately and then transported in large quantities and then sent to a reprocessor. 100% of the food and drinks cans you recycle are made into new products in the UK. The aluminium or steel will be cleaned and melted down to be used again. This can be for anything from cars and planes to fridge parts as well as for new food and drinks cans.

Plastic Bottles

Your plastic bottles are separated by a mechanical sorting process from the other materials that are collected for recycling (food and drinks cans and glass bottles and jars) and baled into separate types of plastic (HDPE and PET) in Greater Manchester and then transported in large quantities to a reprocessor. Around 50% of the plastic bottles you recycle are made into new products in the UK. The plastic bottles will be cleaned and chipped ready to be melted down to be used again for anything from new bottles, pipes and toys to garden products.

The other 50% of the plastic bottles you recycle can be sent to Europe or further afield, but rest assured this material is sent as a quality resource for recycling and our systems and controls ensure that this happens. Parts of Europe and China for example, have large manufacturing businesses that have a demand for our plastic bottles for use in their new products: your plastic bottle might come back to the UK in a children's toy, a garden chair or a car bumper.