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.

PLEASE don’t put recycling in plastic bags before it goes in the brown bin, even compostable bags. They contaminate the recycling.
If you aren’t sure whether something can be recycled in your brown bin, put it in your black bin with your
general waste. Contaminated loads cannot to be recycled.
Wash food packaging before recycling.
See https://www.highpeak.gov.uk/BrownBin for details of what goes in your brown bin.
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
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