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Local Recycling Map

 

 

Where does your recycling go?

Plastic Bottles Used to make new bottles, food packaging and other packaging.
Food tins, drink cans and aerosols Meted down and turned into cans.
Clothing and Textiles Distributed worldwide.
Garden Waste Composted to make rich soil conditioner. Used for ground maintenance on local flower beds.
Paper and Cardboard Used to make new paper. Cardboard is pulped to make new boxes and packaging.
Mixed Glass Used to make mew glass bottles and jars. Some of our glass gets recycled in Europe.

 

BLUE BINS

Collected every two weeks with your Green Crate

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

  • All Clean Paper

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

  • Shredded Paper

  • Gift Rap

 

GREEN CRATES

Collected every two weeks with your Blue Bin

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

SITE GLASS
BOTTLES
JARS		 NEWS
PAPERS
MAGAZINES		 TEXTILES MIXED PAPER
CARDBOARD		 FOIL Ink Cartridges BOOKS SHOES
                 
Basingbourne Park YES              
Former Shots Nightclub YES              
Netherhouse Moor YES              
Quetta Park YES              
Velmead Community Centre YES              
Crookham Wharf YES              
Ancells Farm Shopping Centre YES YES YES YES       YES
Calthorpe Park YES              
Church Rd Car Park YES YES YES YES YES   YES YES
Heatherside School YES              
Hitchens Lane Leisure Centre  YES YES YES YES     YES YES
Mounts Way Elvetham Heath YES              
Links Hotel YES              
Victoria Rd Car Park YES YES YES          
Sainsbuy's Car Park YES YES YES         YES
Civic Centre (entrance)           YES    

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 - 1800

 

SHREDDED PAPER

Some local authorities will accept shredded paper together with your other paper items via your local authority’s kerbside collections or at your nearest paper bank. If so:

  • Make sure it is free of plastic.
  • Don't put it loose into open recycling boxes as it will blow away!

Other local authorities ask for shredded paper to be recycled in the cardboard recycling banks only. Check your local authority’s website, or give them a ring to make sure.

If your local authority does not accept shredded paper, then either don't shred it (if appropriate) or give it to a private company to dispose of.

Understanding shredded paper issues

Some local authorities will not collect shredded paper. This is because although, technically, shredded paper can be recycled, some paper mills cannot take it. There are two main reasons for this;

  • the average fibre length paper has decreases with shredding, and thus paper made from it will be weaker, and
  • shredded paper can be difficult to handle at the mill and depending on the equipment there, it can cause maintenance problems and fire hazards.

What else can I do with it?

Avoid it!

Avoid shredding your papers - unless you are worried about confidential information getting into the wrong hands. This will make the paper more easily recyclable.

 

 

SMALL ELECTRICAL ITEMS

Recycle at Morrisons, Elvetham Heath & Civic Offices Fleet

 

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.

LARGE ITEMS

Hart District Council can collect large and bulky items such as fridges, freezers, cookers and carpets. Call 01252 622122