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Kerbside Recycling Calendar - Week 2
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October 2025 November 2025 December 2025 January 2026
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Your recycling container will be collected on your regular collection day in the weeks shaded above
Your BLACK containers will be collected on the alternating week. Your FOOD WASTE container will be collected EVERY FORTNIGHT on the same day as your black bin.
If refuse collections are delayed due to adverse weather, please put your containers out by 7 am each day to allow collection at the earliest opportunity.
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Guidance on what can be recycled
The following materials can be recycled using your The following materials can be recycled using your
BLUE recycling container (please rinse clean): GREEN food waste container:
✓ Food & Drinks Cans
✓ Cardboard ✓ All dairy products (cheese, yoghurt etc.)
✓ Paper (newspapers, magazines, catalogues, telephone directories, ✓ Eggs (raw and cooked, including shells )
yellow pages, un-shredded office quality paper, envelopes, ✓ Meat & Fish (raw and cooked, including bones)
window envelopes - plastic film removed) ✓ Fruit & Vegetables (including peelings)
✓ Plastic Bottles (all types of drinks bottles, detergent bottles, ✓ Bread, Cakes & Pastries
cosmetics bottles) ✓ Rice, Pasta & Beans
✓ Plastic Food Containers (margarine tubs, yoghurt pots, fruit punnets, ✓ Tea Bags & Coffee Grounds
clear & coloured plastic food trays) ✓ Out of date food (loose or still in packaging)
✓ Aluminium (foil & containers) Food waste is collected fortnightly on the same day as your black bin.
✓ Food & Drink Cartons
The following garden waste can be recycled using your You may use your black box to take your glass to your nearest recycling point
BROWN recycling container: or recycling Centre
✓ Hedge Trimmings ✓ Leaves
✓ Grass Cuttings ✓ Twigs
✓ Flowers, Plants & Weeds
A permit is required for the collection of each brown bin
Garden waste collections take place between March and November
Please DO NOT use plastic bags in your recycling containers.
It is important that only the correct materials go into your recycling containers. Any containers contaminated with the wrong materials will not be collected. A sticker will be left
explaining why your container was not collected and what to do. Your container will then be collected on your next recycling collection day.
Please place the appropriate container at your usual collection point by 7am and remove it as quickly as possible after collection.
NOTE: Excess waste left on or beside your container will not be collected.
For further information or to buy a garden waste permit visit www.inverclyde.gov.uk/recycling.
