The recycling lorry goes down East St Helen Street at about 7:00. The sound of braking glass is normally enough to wake and alert anybody who has forgotten to put out the green box the previous night.
It then goes along St Helens Court, and up West St Helen Street, holding up the traffic for a couple of minutes before disappearing for another week along the High Street.
The collection rota was shown in a previous post . Another post talked about the recycling centre and what can be recycled there. But for posterity – because I know this is not likely to come up at the pub quiz tonight – here is a list of what you can currently put into your Vale District Council green recycling box:
- Newspapers, Flyers
- Aerosol Cans
- Magazines & Brochures
- Food Cans (clean)
- Catalogues (not hardback)
- Drinks Cans (clean)
- Junk Mail, Paper Envelopes
- Aluminium Foil (clean)
- Telephone Directories(no Yellow Pages)
- Batteries (place in small clear bag)
- Glass Bottles and Jars (any colour, clean)
- Car Batteries (place beside box)
- Plastic Bottles (clean) if it had a cap we want it – no other plastics i.e. yogurt pots, margarine tubs.
- Shoes & Textiles (in separate bag)
- Clothing (in separate bag)
- Mobile Phones
There is also a brown wheelie bin for compostable green waste and cardboard.
After the recycling lorry has gone there are sometimes items that got left behind in the green box:
- some cardboard (wrong box)
- the shoe cleaning cloth (fallen in by mistake)
- a few screws (there by mistake)
- the Next Catalog (rejected because of hard cover)