Kerbside Recycling
Aberdeen City Council offers a kerbside collection of materials for recycling household waste across the City. If your area is not yet served by a collection in the black box and white bag you might still receive a kerbside collection of waste paper.
The kerbside recycling collection service allows you to recycle your:
- drink and aerosol cans
- food tins
- foil trays and kitchen foil
- glass bottles and jars
- plastic bottles
- paper, cardboard and unwanted junk mail.
You will be offered two containers: a kerbside black box for the collection of glass bottles and jars, food, drink and aerosol cans as well as foil trays and kitchen foil and plastic bottles, with a re-useable white sack for the collection of paper and cardboard.
You can recycle the following materials in your kerbside black box:
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Yes Please |
No Thanks |
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| Aerosol cans: Please remove caps and empty cans, do not crush, pierce or flatten | Broken glass |
| Food & drinks cans: Rinse food tins and place the lids inside | Crisp packets |
| Foil trays and kitchen foil: please rinse | Drinking glasses |
| Glass bottles & jars: Please rinse glass bottles and jars and remove lids/corks | Food pouches |
| Plastic bottles: Please rinse clean and flatten plastic bottles and replace the lids to save space |
Glass bottle tops and corks, jar lids |
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Lightbulbs |
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| Margarine tubs | |
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Packaging too large to fit in the bag |
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Plastic packaging |
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Pyrex |
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Sheet glass |
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| Small pieces of tin foil * | |
| Sweet wrappers | |
| Yoghurt pots | |
| *NB small pieces of foil are likely to be lost during collection and recycling. |
You can recycle the following materials in your White Bag:
| Yes Please | No Thanks |
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| Clean cardboard: Please take any excess packaging material and cardboard to your closest recycling point. Our collection vehicle cannot collect oversized cardboard. | Window envelopes: Please note that we cannot recycle envelopes with plastic 'windows'. Please remove these before placing in your Waste Aware white bag. |
| Paper | Wallpaper |
Once collected, your materials are taken to re-processing factories where they are turned into new products for you to buy again.
Your Kerbside black box and white bag will be collected every fortnight and you can view or download your Household Waste Collection Calendar or call 08456 08 09 19 or 01224 219 281 for further information.
How to use your kerbside recycling collection service
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On your collection day, place your Waste Aware white bag on top of your Kerbside black box.
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Place them at the end of your driveway or path where it meets the public footpath, road or parking area by 7:00am.
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Your Kerbside black box and Waste Aware white bag will be returned to your property after collection.
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Don't overfill your black box or white bag, or place additional containers out for collection. These cannot be collected.
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All cardboard packaging must be torn up to a size to fit in the white bag. Our collection vehicle cannot collect large cardboard boxes.
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Additional material for recycling should be taken to your nearest Recycling Centres or Recycling Points
Lost or Stolen Black Box and/or White Bag
If your black box and/or white bag has been lost or stolen, you can organise a replacement by using the contact below:
- Waste Team
Tel: 08456 08 09 19 or 01224 219 281
Email: wasteaware@aberdeencity.gov.uk
General Contact
- Waste Team Tel: 08456 08 09 19 or 01224 219 281
Email: wasteaware@aberdeencity.gov.uk
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