Gloucester - recycling made easy!
Contact your recycling team at Gloucester CC by calling 01452 396396 – Email: recycling@gloucester.gov.uk or visit www.gloucester.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
Gloucester City Council’s recycling box collections are weekly. Please put your recycling box out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement box or to arrange an assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.
We also offer a free, monthly, bulky collection service, of up to 3 items per household. Contact the Recycling Team to arrange a free bulky collection.
mixed paper & card
- Newspapers & magazines
- Phone directories, including Yellow Pages
- Catalogues & paperback books
- Junk mail, letters & cards
- Light card egg boxes
- Envelopes please tear out plastic windows
- Cereal & food packaging boxes
- Shredded paper
- Wet or dirty items
- Wallpaper
- Hardback books
- Shiny wrapping paper
- Gift wrap
- Corrugated cardboard (e.g. washing powder boxes)
- Tetra Pak cartons (e.g. fruit juice cartons)
food & drink cans
- Food cans
- Drink cans
- Dirty cans
- Pet food pouches / crisp packets
- Paint tins
- Aluminium foil
- Aluminium / metal food trays
- Aerosol cans
Please rinse. Labels can be left on. Can lids can be left inside but with no serrated edges.
mixed glass
- Clean glass jars
- Glass bottles (all colours)
- Window panes
- Pyrex dishes / crockery
- Light bulbs (low energy lightbulbs should be wrapped and placed in dustbin)
- Glass milk bottles
Please rinse No lids, corks or caps please. Labels can be left on
plastic bottles
- Plastic bottles (all types)
- Milk / juice bottles
- Cleaning / bleach / detergent bottles
- Toiletry bottles
- Yogurt / margarine tubs
- Fruit punnets
- Ready meal / meat trays
- Cling film / carrier bags
batteries
- Household dry cell batteries
- 'Wet' batteries (e.g. car batteries)
Food waste collection
Food waste is collected weekly for composting, normally on the same day as your recycling collection. Every household has been issued with a small food waste caddy which can be kept on your worktop or under the sink. The caddy has a locking handle to prevent spills and smells and protect the contents from vermin. Food waste can also be emptied into the large outside caddy - which should be placed at the kerbside for weekly collection.
Please do not use any ‘plastic type’ bags e.g. corn starch, compostable, degradable, biodegradable in your caddies as the recycling teams will not empty them, as this could lead to loads of food waste being rejected as unsuitable for composting.
If you are unsure of your collection day please contact the recycling team. Please put your large outside caddy out by 7am on the day of collection. Contact the Recycling Team for an additional or replacement container, a collection calendar or assisted collection for the elderly or infirm.
Top tip: To keep your caddies clean line them with newspaper, paper kitchen towel or paper liners.
The food waste container can be used for all biodegradable food waste including:
These are the items you can put in your food waste container
- Meat and fish (raw and cooked, including bones)
- Dairy products
- Cooked and raw fruit and vegetables
- Bread, cake and pasta
- Uneaten food from plates
- Tea and coffee grounds
- Food packaging of any kind
- Liquids
- All 'plastic type' bags e.g. corn starch, compostable, desgradable, biodegradable
- Crockery
- Pet carcasses or faeces
- Cooking oil
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
If you currently receive a free garden waste collection service, using a green-wheeled bin, remember only green garden waste is acceptable, no food/kitchen scraps.
Find out what day your dustbin and recycling box is collected click here
3. Garden Waste Composting at Gloucester’s Household Recycling Centre in Hempsted
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
To complement recycling collections from home, there is a wide range of recycling banks available for recycling a greater variety of materials.
Please remember to wash and squash any plastic bottles and rinse out your tins and cans!
- Barnett Way, Sainsburys
- Bruton Way, Asda
- Castlemeads Way, Castlemeads
- Glevum Way, Morrisons
- Quedgeley, Tesco
- St Ann Way, Sainsburys, Gloucester Quays
- St Oswalds Road, Tesco
At Household Recycling Centres (formerly known as “The Tip”) you can recycle a wide range of materials. Your nearest site is:
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 & household
- Books
- Cans - food, drink & pet food
- Card & cardboard
- Catalogues & brochures
- DIY waste/ rubble
- Clothes & shoes
- Flourescent tubes
- Foil
- Garden waste
- Glass bottes & jars
- Household chemicals
- Junk mail
- Lightbulbs
- Oil - cooking oil & waste engine oil
- Paper - mixed
- Plastic bottles
- Scrap metal
- Shoes
- Spectacles
- Telephone directories
- Televisions
- Tetra pak - Hempsted only
- Textiles
- Gas bottles
- Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
- White goods - fridges, washing machines etc
- Wood & timber
- Yellow Pages
- Asbestos
- Clinical waste
- Business waste
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.