Joanna collins - Recycling in high peak
High Peak Green Party Councillor, Joanna Collins on recycling in High Peak
Recycling and reuse in High Peak.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. The best is to reduce; consumption is the biggest driver of climate change. However, we can’t simply stop consuming. This list is a guide to what you can do when you have finished with stuff – how to make sure it is reused or recycled.
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PLEASE don’t put recycling in plastic bags before it goes in the brown bin, even compostable bags. They contaminate the recycling.
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If you aren’t sure whether something can be recycled in your brown bin, put it in your black bin with your
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general waste. Contaminated loads cannot to be recycled.
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Wash food packaging before recycling.
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See https://www.highpeak.gov.uk/BrownBin for details of what goes in your brown bin.
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See www.recycle.now.com and https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades for more on recycling, and https://wrap.org.uk for in-depth discussion of how things are produced, consumed, and disposed of.
Items | Where to recycle | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Food and drink cans
aerosols, metal lids for
glass jars | Brown Bin | |
Plastic food packaging
(hard): tubs, pots | Brown Bin | |
Plastic food
packaging (soft film): bags,
veg wrap, bread wrap,
plastic magazine wrapping
etc | Aldi, Iceland,
Morrisons, Waitrose | |
Crisp packets, sweet
wrappers, bubble wrap,
cling film | Waitrose, Iceland in
Buxton | |
Foil and foil containers | Brown Bin | Press small bits of foil together to make a tennis-ball-sized lump |
Food and drink cartons
(Tetrapak etc) | Brown Bin | |
Glass bottles & jars | Brown Bin | |
Garden waste (weeds,
clippings etc) | Green Bin or Compost Heap | No plastic bags please |
Blister packs (pills) | Superdrug | |
Asthma Inhalers | Any pharmacy | Don't put them in the bin - they release green house gases as they break down |
Food waste | Green Bin or Compost Heap | |
Wood - including treated | Waterswallows Recycling Centre | Waterswallows Household Waste Recycling
Waterswallows Industrial Estate
Waterswallows Road SK17 7JR |
Small electrical items | Kerbside, with bins | To book a collection see |
All electrical items | Waterswallows | |
Metal | Waterswallows | |
Furniture | Glossopdale Furniture Project, some charity shops | https://www.glossopdalefurniture.co.uk/ |
Phones and computers refurbishes IT equipment less than five years old. | PCRefurb Glossop | Refurbishes IT equipment less than five years old. https://pcrefurb.org.uk/refurbishing-and-recycling/ |
Phones | Oxfam Buxton, other charity shops | |
Glasses | Some opticians | |
Clothes and other textiles | Charity shops, Waterswallows | |
Baby Essentials | High Peak Baby Bank | www.highpeakbabybank.co.uk |
Plastic bottles (drinks,
household cleaners,
shampoo, toiletries) | Brown Bin | Put pumps on bottles in black bin (they’re made of a
different plastic). |
Paper & card | Brown Bin |