Kentucky Recycling Station

Paper & Cardboard

• Cardboard boxes (please remove staples and flatten)
• Cardboard sleeves from food or other packaging, e.g. tubes from toilet roll
• Other boxes – cereal boxes, cling wrap boxes (with the metal tear strip and plastic removed)
• Newspapers, catalogues, magazines, junk mail
• Clean food containers or packaging
• Drink cartons without foil lining, e.g. juice and milk cartons (please rinse and remove lids)
• Envelopes with windows, but not padding
• Gift wrap – non metallic (please remove plastic bows and other materials)
• Greeting cards
• Shredded paper
• Telephone directories
• Office paper

Plastic 

• Hard plastic bottles, empty (e.g. bleach or detergent, fabric conditioner)
• Fruit punnets and trays
• Plastic tubs, clean (e.g. Margarine tubs, yoghurt pots - please remove lids)
• Milk bottles
• Mineral water bottles, soda bottles
• Clean plastic pots
• Shampoo and dish detergent bottles

Glass 

• Bottles (juice, mineral water, soda, wine)
• Jars (e.g. jam jars, pasta sauce)
• Light bulbs

Please remove all lids and ensure the container is clean. Drinking glasses, window glass, mirror glass, Pyrex dishes, and broken glass is not accepted.

Aluminium, Tin & Steel

• Aerosol cans (must be empty, plastic lid removed)
• Aluminium drink cans
• Aluminium foil, clean and scrunched into a ball (e.g. yoghurt foil lids, Easter egg wrapping)
• Aluminium trays, clean
• Biscuit tins
• Food tins (e.g. tinned food, biscuits, sweets, pet food)