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You can now recycle plastic bottles and batteriesBLUE BOX

4 Glass bottles4 Glass jars4 Aluminium cans4 Food and drinks cans4 Empty aerosol cans4 Clean aluminium foil

8 Light bulbs8 Glass dishes8 Window panes8 Bottle or carton lids8 Sweet wrappers8 Crisp packets

Put the following paperitems in your blue bagand place with your blue box ready for collection:

4 Newspapers4 Magazines4 Computer paper4 Junk mail4 All directories

8 Food wrappers8 Plastics8 Envelopes

Put the following textile items with your textiles bag and place with your blue box ready for collection:

4 Clothing4 Towels4 Clean sheets4 Shoes (in pairs)

8 Duvets8 Pillows

Put the following item in a sealed clear bag, ie freezer bag and place with your blue box ready for collection:

4 Household batteries

8 Car batteries8 Laptop batteries

RED BOX

4 Cardboard4 Cardboard food and drinks cartons, ie tetrapak type cartons4 Cereal boxes4 Greeting cards

8 Polystyrene8 Styrofoam

Put the following item in your opaque bag and placewith your red box ready for collection:

4 All types of clean plastic bottles

8 Plastic tubs8 Oven-proof plastic trays8 Bottles or carton lids8 Plastic bags8 Mixed or dirty waste

Tuesday collections 2011 – please place your boxes and bags on the kerbside by 8am

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Tuesday collections 2012 – please place your boxes and bags on the kerbside by 8am

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Your kerbside recyclingcalendar 2011/2012

Recycling at your kerbsidesaves the earth’s natural resources

With your help, we recycled over 14,000 tonnes of materials last year.This helped us achieve a recycling rate of over 30%. Please continue

to recycle as much as you can using your red and blue boxes and bagsto help achieve a recycling rate of 50% by 2014.

Further information Please put any excess recyclable items in see-through carrier bags

and place beside your red or blue box at the kerbside. Please help us by putting only the correct items in the boxes as items

that can’t be recycled will be left in your box. Please flatten the contents of your red box which means you get more

in your box and we get more in the lorry that picks it up. Please rinse the contents before putting them in your blue box or opaque

bag as items which are not clean may not be able to be recycled. You can collect rain covers, blue bags and textile bags at your local

library or you can order boxes online at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/recycle

For more information about any of Edinburgh’s range of recycling services:visit www.edinburgh.gov.uk/recycle, e-mail waste@edinburgh.gov.uk

or phone 0131 529 3030.

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You can get this document on tape, in Braille, large print and various computer formats if you ask us. Please contact ITS on 0131 242 8181 and quote reference number 01261.

ITS can also give information on community language translations.

Printed on recycled paper Designed by the City of Edinburgh Council Corporate Services 0431/SFC/SG December 2010

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