Kerbside Recycling Collections
Collections from houses
Most residents can now recycle from home using a kerbside recycling collections provided by the council or our partners Friends of St Nicholas Fields, who collect within the city walls. Items are collected from the front edge of your property and taken for recycling.
We provide houses with 3 boxes and lids or a net for recycling. Flats and houses of multiple occupancy have shared wheeled bins for recycling.
Collections from flats
Wheeled bins for recycling are provided for residents of flats to share. The bins have a small flap on top which you can open to put your recycling into the bin. All flats are given a reusable bag to carry recycling to the bins. Please contact us if you need a bag.
Items you can recycle
The table below shows which items can be recycled using the kerbside collections. Please separate your recycling into the following categories using the containers which you have.
Please rinse bottles, jars, cans and tins where possible and squash plastic bottles and tins/cans.
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Yes Please |
No thanks |
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Paper and cardboard together | Magazines and newspapers
Junk mail Catalogues and brochures White office paper and shredded paper Directories and Yellow Pages Envelopes without windows All types of flattened cardboard packaging Greeting and Christmas cards and non-metallic wrapping paper (please remove bows and ribbon) | Plastic magazine covers
Polystyrene and plastic packaging Un-flattened or very large boxes - take these to a Household Waste Recycling Centre Drinks cartons (Tetrapacks) |
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Plastic bottles and cans together | All plastic bottles for example detergent, fizzy drinks, shampoo, yoghurt drinks, toiletry and milk bottles.
We can accept all colours, sizes and shapes of plastic bottles along with their lids and tops. Food tins Drinks cans Metal biscuit/cake/sweet tins Empty aerosols |
We cannot accept any other types of plastic packaging for recycling No foil, paint tins or other metals e.g. baking tins |
| Glass |
All colours and sizes of glass bottles and jars (please rinse them out first) |
Broken glass and other types of glass for example cookware, light bulbs etc. Jar and glass bottle lids |
City centre recycling collections
The Friends of St Nicholas Fields now collect kerbside recycling from most households within the city walls. They also collect from Gillygate, Portland Street, Claremont Terrace and Bootham Square just outside the city walls. This is a partnership between us and St Nicholas Fields.
What can you recycle in the city centre?
- Metal food and drinks cans, empty aerosols, clean aluminium foil
- Glass bottles and jars
- Newspapers, magazines, catalogues, junk mail, windowless envelopes (please tear them out), phone directories and scrap paper
- Cardboard
- Plastic bottles
- Garden waste is also collected in some areas.
Please contact them to check your collection day. This may be different to your rubbish collection day. For further information please see the St Nicholas Fields website, telephone 01904 411821 or email recycling@stnicksfields.org.uk
When are collections?
To make things as easy as possible, we collect your rubbish, garden waste (where applicable) and recycling collections will take place on the same day each week: your recycling and garden waste (where applicable) are collected one week, rubbish the next week and so on.
Please contact us to find out your collection day and week. All households are provided with a new collection calendar each year in the autumn. Unfortunately it is not currently possible to put the collection calendars and street list on the website.
Bank Holidays
In 2012 there will be no changes to household rubbish, garden waste and kerbside recycling collections in weeks containing a Bank Holiday, except Christmas and New Year (details to be confirmed). All collections will be on your normal day
Help with collections
Please contact us is you need help with your recycling collections. We can offer the following help:
- Anyone living by themselves and not producing a lot of recycling materials can request a box with dividers, so they only need one box for glass, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and cans
- Anyone who can’t lift or carry their recycling can have wheels for their recycling box or a simple trolley, which makes it easier to move.
- Assisted collection - residents who have difficulties putting your recycling boxes or refuse out for collection due to reasons of age and disability should contact us to see if they are eligible for an assisted collection.
Need a recycling container?
If you requested a new or replacement recycling container between 9 December 2011 and 31 March 2012, but have not yet received it, you will receive your container after 2 April. Please click here for full information about when we are delivering in your area.
Please contact us if you need to request a replacement container.
What happens to the recycling after collection?
After collection by us items are taken to the Yorwaste Ltd run Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) at Hessay, York. Here they are sorted and baled and then sent on for recycling around the country, in Europe and worldwide.
After collections by Friends of St Nicholas Fields, the recycling is sorted by them and then it is collected for recycling.
Thank you to all residents for helping to recycle and compost over 45% of household waste collected in York during 2010-11.
