Brown bin or biodegradable bags:

Garden waste, kitchen waste, and cardboard. NO PLASTIC.

Recycling box:

Newspapers, magazines, paper, glass bottles and jars, tins and cans, card, cardboard drinks cartons, aluminium foil, plastic milk bottles, plastic carrier bags, clothes and shoes. NB You can now recycle domestic batteries on black box days.

Non-recyclable refuse:

i.e. disposable nappies, polystyrene, plastic-lined containers, anything NOT listed above.

Devon Community Recycling Network - information about the company.

Newspapers & Magazines

Please keep separate from other materials, and flatten all cardboard. Plastic wrappers etc. should be discarded in your dustbin.

Aluminium Foil

Washed milk bottle tops, foil trays baking foil, etc. can be recycled, but not plastic such as crisp, coffee and pill packets. Try to screw the foil up - if it stays screwed up, it's aluminium foil.

Glass

All glass jars and bottles can be recycled - but remove lids or tops. Please return milk bottles to the milkman or shop to be reused. Pyrex and crystal glass cannot be recycled and need to go in the dustbin. recycling glass throughout the UK saves 15 million gallons of oil.

Clothing & Textiles

Please bag all clothing including handbags and paired shoes to keep them dry.

Food & Drinks Cans

Give all tins a good rinse out before leaving them in your box. They take up less space if you squash them too. Recycling one aluminium drink can save enough energy to run your TV for 3 hours!

Polythene carrier bags

These can be recycled and made into a variety of new plastic products such as traffic cones.

Cardboard Drinks Cartons

We are one of the first kerb-side recycling groups in the country to collaborate with the liquid foods carton manufacturers association in collecting cartons for recycling. Please drain and rinse all food and drinks containers.

Note that we cannot recycle chemical or paint tins, screw tops from jars, all plastics (except plastic milk bottles and carrier bags), waxed paper, or scrap metal.

Mid Devon Recycling Help Lines are on 01392-882388 and 01884-243200