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Recycling - information and advice

Recycling facilities are provided by Sunderland City Council from the kerbside and also at several locations throughout the city.

Blue recycling bin
The following items can be accepted in your blue bin:

  • Paper - in the inner box
  • Cardboard
  • Plastic bottles
  • Glass (any colour jar or bottle)
  • Cans - food tins and drink cans
  • Aerosols
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The blue bin must not be used for waxed cartons (such as juice cartons) or any plastic without a 1 or 2 on the base.

Other ways that we support recycling in the city:

  • Recycling sites
  • Paper Banks
    You can deposit newspapers, magazines, junk mail, white and yellow telephone directories and all other white paper. Please do not deposit cardboard, brown paper, and envelopes
  • Glass Banks
    Save all glass except returnable milk bottles. Rinse all glass containers. Remove any tops and caps - metal damages recycling equipment. Separate bottles and jars into different colours before placing them in the appropriate bins
  • Can Banks
    You can deposit aluminium or steel, food, drink or pet food cans. Please wash and squash all your cans before depositing them
  • Textile Banks
    Suitable for old clothes, curtains, blankets, shoes or rags. Do not put heavily soiled materials into the bank
  • Book Banks
    You can deposit any kind of book
  • pdf icon Shoe Recycling Sites [65kb]
  • Carton Recycling
    You can deposit your old milk, juice, soup and dessert cartons at any of recycling sites listed to the right. Once the cartons have been used, please rinse out the carton, drain it and then flatten it by pulling out the 'ears'
  • Waste Oil / Cardboard / Batteries / TV and Computer Monitors / Mixed Plastic Bottles
    Householders can deposit waste oil, batteries, TV and computer monitors and all types of cardboard boxes and packaging from large items at the Household Waste and Recycling Sites at Beach Street, Sunderland or Campground, Springwell, Washington
  • Chlorofluorocarbons
    All domestic refrigerator and freezer cabinets collected by the Council or deposited at Beach Street Waste Reception Site undergo safe removal of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) and Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC's)
  • Green Waste and Timber
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