Recycling Facilities

Recycling facilities are provided by Sunderland City Council for the deposit of various commodities at several locations throughout the City.

• Eco-Team
• Kerb-it Recycling Service
• Green-it Recycling Service
• Recycling Site Locations
• Waste Minimisation
• Greetings Card Recycling Points 
• Battery Recycling Locations
• Love Food, Hate Waste
• Join the Waste Debate
• Quiz - Play the Regeneration Game!
• New Recycling Service for 2010

Kerb-it

The following items can now be accepted in your Kerb-it box:

Greetings cards (without glitter or plastic), Yellow Pages 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.

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.

The team will still collect newspapers, magazines, catalogues, envelopes, shredded paper, glass, aerosols and cans.

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 ( 41kb)  
You can deposit shoes at any of the recycling points listed in the attached document

Carton Recycling   
You can deposit your old milk, juice, soup and dessert cartons at any of bring sites listed.  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 

For more information view our Frequently Asked Questions.

Green Waste and Timber
Refer to Eco-Team (top of page)

You may find these links to external sites very useful.

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