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Small electrical items, that meet the size criteria, should be placed on top of the lid of your black bin.
Please do not put them by the side of your bin. This will help with the collection process and ensure they do not get accidentally missed by the crews.
Power leads/cables should either be placed inside the item or wrapped around the item. Cables must not be left dangling from the item.
During particularly windy weather, please don't put items out for collection to prevent the risk of items blowing away. Please save them for the next collection.
Never put batteries or electrical items inside your green recycling bin or black recycling bin. Not only could this contaminate your recycling (and that of other people) it may cause fires within the lorries or at the recycling sorting plant.
Any small electrical or electronic item can be recycled, including mains or battery powered items as long as they are no bigger than 25cm x 15cm x 20cm (approx. 10inches x 6 inches x 8 inches).
Yes please:
- Kettles, toasters, irons and other small kitchen appliances
- Hairdryers, hair straighteners and hair clippers
- Clocks, watches, calculators and torches
- Remote controllers, mobile phones, cameras and chargers
- Mobile phones and laptop batteries
- Radios, alarms, mini hi-fi's and CD and MP3 Players
- Small electronic toys e.g. remote control cars
- Power tools, smoke detectors and thermostats
No thanks
- Light bulbs, fluorescent tubes
- Televisions, computer monitors of any size and laptops
- Fridges and freezers
- Washing machines, cookers and microwave ovens
- Glass/ceramic electrical items e.g. slow cookers or glass kettles
Some of these items are covered under our chargeable bulky waste collection service. Book a bulky waste collection.
Please remember that items that are too large will not be collected. Please leave any cables and plugs attached to the electrical items. Remove all batteries from electrical items and place these with your other batteries a small clear bag.
All cables and plugs should be left attached to the electrical item.
Yes these should be removed from the item and placed with your other batteries in a small clear bag.
Batteries require a specialist process to recycle them and therefore have to be sent to a different re-processor than that of the unwanted electrical items. If the batteries are left in the electrical equipment it makes the separation more difficult for sorting and recycling.
Space is very limited on the collection vehicles therefore it is preferable if you put the item out as it becomes unwanted and not store until you have several items. If large quantities of items are left out for collection it will be at the discretion of the collector and the space available on the truck as to whether they will be all collected.
Electrical items are stripped down to the component parts e.g. metals and plastics and require specialist recycling process so cannot be recycled along with the contents of the green bin which include cans, cardboard packaging and glass which are sorted by conveyor belts at the recycling centre in Norton.
If the item is bigger than 25cm x 15cm x 20cm it will not be collected. Items larger than this can still be recycled at your local household waste site.
It maybe that you want to book a chargeable bulky waste collection service instead. . Book a bulky waste collection.
Most batteries you find in your home can be put out of collection, including single use and rechargeable. Industrial and car batteries cannot be collected via this scheme. Batteries with trailing wires can also not be collected as part of this scheme. To reduce the risk of short circuiting, cover the contacts on lithium and button cell batteries with sticky tape.
Batteries should be please in a small clear tied bag e.g. sandwich bag and placed of top of your black bin lid. You could reuse an old empty bread bag. To reduce the risk of short circuiting, cover the contacts on lithium and button cell batteries with sticky tape.
Unfortunately, as car batteries contain acid they cannot be taken with the other batteries collected within this scheme. Car batteries can be disposed of at your local Household Waste Recycling Centre.
To help make the scheme more efficient, we ask that residents save batteries until they have at least 10 to present. This helps reduce the risk of the bag blowing away in windy weather and reduces the use of plastic bags. Bags with fewer than 10 batteries will still be collected however.