A-Z of Council Services
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Recycling - bags, bins and boxes
Pendle council currently provide and collect the following recycling containers:
- Green boxes for glass, cans and paper
- Green bin for garden waste (grass cuttings, leaves, plants, soil and small branches
- Blue sack for plastic bottles and containers
- Red sack for textiles, clothing and shoes
- Free compost bin (see link below)
- Grey wheeled bin or refuse sacks for general household waste
Online services: Complete an online form to order additional recycling containers
Additional information: View the A - Z of recycling in Pendle to find out what to do with waste materials
Related services:
Email: operational.services@pendle.gov.uk
Telephone: 01282 661743
Fax: 01282 661750
Address: Fleet Street Depot, Charles Street, Nelson, Lancashire, BB9 7YQ
- Do I need to separate materials in the box?
- What if I have more material than will fit into the box?
- When should I put my recycling out?
- Why do my containers have to be out so early?
- Where should I put my Recycling Containers For Collection?
- Why do my recycling containers have to be left near the front pavement?
- My box lid has not been returned after the box has been emptied.
- Sometimes there is rubbish left in my box after emptying.
- What will happen with the green garden waste bin during the winter months?
- What if I already compost all my garden waste and don't need a green bin?
- I've heard that having a wheeled bin can increase the risk of burglary, as the criminals can assume that when the bin is left out I'm not at home?
- What if my wheeled bin is damaged or stolen?
- Do I own the wheeled bin/recycling boxes?
- Will the wheeled bin need cleaning?
- Will I have to put out the bin/box on collection day?
- Why do you want us to put our wheeled bins/boxes out at 7.30am?
- If I forget to put out my wheeled bin/box in time, what will happen?
- Why is my recycling collected at different times?
- How will elderly or disabled people manage?
- What about terraced houses/flats/multi-occupancy homes and houses with long drives?
- What if I have a large family and the 240 litre grey bin is not enough?
- How do I recycle items that I can't leave at the kerbside?
- What about the removal of bulky items - furniture and fridges etc?
- Can I put waste in black bin bags into my wheeled bin, or do I have to put the rubbish in loose?
- Which bin do nappies go in? I have young children in nappies and I won't have enough room in my rubbish bin.
- Doorstep collection
- Garden waste collection
- Composting at home
- Green box recycling
- Cardboard recycling collection
- Plastic bottle collection
- Refuse grey bin collection
- Real nappies
- Ordering bins, boxes and sacks
- Pink And Green Recycling Sacks
- Clinical waste collection service
- Special collection of large items
- Orange refuse sacks
- Assisted collection of rubbish and recycling
- Textile Recycling
- My Recycling
- LOOKING AFTER YOUR GREY REFUSE BIN
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