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Collected every two weeks

The following can go into your blue bin:

• Newspapers                  

• Magazines            

• Brochures                 

• Catalogues

• Cardboard    Including corrugated cardboard boxes

• Junk Mail

• Telephone Directories

• Drink cans          All alumimim cans, Rinse 

• Food cans            Keep clean & dry    

• Pet food cans       Rinse & remove tops

• Plastic bottles      That have contained liquid - Bleach/house cleaners, drinks bottles, detergent and shampoo bottles etc

• Steel Food Cans  Drink and food cans, Rinse

The following should not go in your blue bin:

• Refuse

• Glass

• Bottle Caps

• Tetrapak cartons e.g.: orange juice

• Containers

• Polybags

• Yogurt cartons

• Margarine tubs

• Other plastic packing

• Yellow Pages

GREEN CRATES

Collected every two weeks

The following can go into your green crate:

• All colours of glass bottles

• All colours of glass jars

• There is no need to separate the colours in the crate

The following should not go into your green crate:

• Crockery

• Ceramics

• Pyrex

• Lead Crystal Glass

• Light bulbs

• Window glass

• broken glass

• other non-glass items

BLACK BINS

Collected every two weeks (alternating with the Blue and Green collections)

GREEN GARDEN WASTE BAGS

Collected every two weeks

• The green bags are for garden waste only i.e. Grass cuttings, Hedge trimmings, plants and weeds, leaves, pruning, twigs, cut flowers.

• No soil, rubbles, fruit and veg peelings, food scraps, coal ash, animal and pet waste, general household waste.

WHERE TO RECYCLE IN FLEET AND CROOKHAM

Rushmoor Household Waste Recycling Centre     
Eelmoor Rd. off Arrow Rd,
Farnborough.  
Emergency Tele No: 01908 658 1000
Opening Hours:
Mon - Sun:  Oct to Mar = 0800 - 1630
Mon - Sun:  Apr to Sep = 0800 - 1900

Did you know that every household in Hart District throws away over 1 tonne of rubbish every year? That's more than 30,000 tonnes in all and most of it goes in landfill.

Rubbish in landfill sites causes environmental damage such as:

• methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas contributing to global warming.
• possible land, air and water pollution.
• loss of land that could be used for leisure, housing or farming.
• loss of natural resources, e.g. recycling aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy required to make one from its raw materials.

Hart's recycling rate of 19% is amongst the best in the country, that's more than double the national average. However the Government has set tough new targets to almost double recycle rates over the next few years. Ways of achieving this are being looked at by Hart but it is a tough target when the amount of rubbish is increasing by 3% every year in Hampshire.

All the money raised from foil cycling in Hart goes to the Phyllis Tuckwell hospice charity.
All book recycling proceeds go to Oxfam.
Clothing and shoes recycling is organised by the Salvation Army.
If all the cans recycled in Hart last year were laid end to end it would reach from Fleet to Sheffield.
Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a colour TV for twenty minutes.