Recycling - information and advice
Recycling facilities are provided by Sunderland City Council from the kerbside and also at several locations throughout the City.
Recycling at home - Kerb-it Recycling Service
Recycling - sites
Household waste - garden waste and timber
Waste Minimisation
Recycling - Batteries
Love Food Hate Waste
Join the Waste Debate
Recycling Game
Kerb-it
The following items can be accepted in your Kerb-it box:
- Greetings cards (without glitter or plastic)
- Yellow Pages, telephone directories and brochures
- Grey or white card packaging such as cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes and the cardboard sleeves from ready meals (but not food containers) etc.
- Paper (newspapers, catalogues, envelopes)
- Glass (any colour jar or bottle)
- Cans - food tins and drink cans
- Aerosols
The Kerb-it team cannot take brown cardboard or any white card if it is coated with plastic or wax, such as drinks cartons, or anything contaminated with food.
Recycling Sites
There are many recycling sites throughout the area (see list of locations and what can be recycled there 
Recycling site details [95kb]) .
- 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, rags etc. Do not put heavily soiled materials into the bank. - Book Banks
You can deposit any kind of book. - Shoe Recycling
You can deposit shoes at any of the recycling points listed in the attached document shoe-recycling-centres [41kb] - 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 corrugated to cereal packets etc 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
The fortnightly Household waste - garden waste service (Green-it) has been implemented citywide for households with gardens. This caters for the majority of green garden waste.
Our Household Waste and Recycling Centres (Beach Street, Deptford, Sunderland or Campground, Springwell, Washington) have facilities to help you dispose of your bulky garden waste, timber and rubble which may not fit in your Green-it bin.
Please deposit your garden waste, timber and rubble in the separate containers provided on site.
Your garden waste will be made into soil conditioner and timber into chipboard.
