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Top tips for recycling/reuse
If you have a great recycling tip, select the material from the list below, enter your tip and click "Submit":
Material:
Abandoned vehicles
Aerosols
Aluminium
Appliances
Asbestos
Baby goods
Batteries (Car Batteries)
Batteries (Household Batteries)
Batteries (Mercury oxide hearing aid cells)
Batteries (Silver Oxide Cells)
Beddings and blankets
Beds
Bicycles
Books
Bottles & Jars
Bric-a-brac
Building materials
Building rubble
Cans
Cardboard
Carpets
Carrier bags
Cars and Car spares
Cartons
Ceramics and China
CFC's (Chlorofluorocarbons)
Chemicals
Christmas trees
Clothing
Coat hangers
Coins
Compost
Computers
Concrete
Cooking oil
Drinks cans
Drinks cartons
Egg boxes
Electrical appliances
Engine oil
Envelopes
Farm waste
Fire Extinguishers
Fizzy drink bottles
Florescent light tubes
Food waste
Foreign Currency
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Fridge/freezers
Furniture & white goods
Garden tools
Garden waste
Gas cylinders
General
Glass
Greeting Cards
Hardcore
Hazardous waste
Ice cream containers
Jars
Jigsaws
Jumble
Junk Mail
Kitchen foil
Kitchen roll
Kitchen waste
Light bulbs
Magazines
Medical Aids
Medicines
Metal
Milk bottles
Mobile phones
Music (CDs & tapes)
Nappies
Newspaper
Office Equipment and furniture
Office Paper
Oil
Organic waste
Packaging
Paint
Paper
Pesticides
Plastic bottles
Plastic carrier bags
Polystyrene Cups
Polythene
Printer cartridges
Quilts
Radios
Rags
Ragwort
Records, Tapes & CDs
Refrigerators and Freezers
Scrapstores
Shoes
Soil
Spectacles
Stair Lifts
Stamps
Steel cans
Stone
Storage heaters
Telephone Directories
Telephones
Televisions
Textiles
Timber
Toilet Rolls
Toner/Inkjet Cartridges
Tools
Toys and Games
Trade Waste Exchange
Tyres
Underlay
Unwanted Mail
Vegetable Peelings
Video tapes
Waste Paper
Wellington Boots
Wood
Wool
Xmas Trees
XS Packaging
Yellow Pages
Yew Clippings
Zero-tolerance
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