Monday is your waste management day

co-mingled (mixed) recycling collection.

Paper, glass, cans, card, plastics, clean foil and Tetra pak and thoroughly emptied aerosol cans will be collected every week in one container.

Every Monday

We will collect your:

• Kitchen Waste
• Co-mingled Recycling

The table below now details your garden waste and black bag collections. Bank holiday changes are highlighted and dates during garden waste collection affecting kitchen and co-mingled recycling if applicable are noted at the base of the table.

Examples of what can be recycled: 

• Paper: Newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, brochures and junk mail
• Glass: Clean jars and bottles eg sauce, jam, beer and wine bottles
• Cans: Clean food and drink cans eg baked beans, soft drinks (wash and squash)
• Clean plastics only, e.g. pop, milk, water, shampoo, detergent), please squash.
• All clean food containers (eg butter, yoghurt pots, ready meals, fruit punnets).
• Cardboard: must be flattened and any packaging must be removed.
• Garden waste : Grass / Hedge cuttings,  Prunings, leaves, plants and flowers and Non-invasive weeds
• Aerosols: they must be empty but may include furniture polish, hair spray and deodrants
• Cartons: such as fruit juice, milkshakes and fruit, please rinse them
• Clean foil: please remove all traces of food and chemicals before adding them to your container

Place in either disposable biodegradable sacks or new re-usable fabric bags; both can be bought from council offices. (Biodegradable 3 for £1 / re-usable £1 each). Bags will be collected once every 2 weeks on the same day as plastic/cardboard.

Kitchen waste information

On our home page, enter your residential post code and find out when all your recycling and refuse collections dates are. All Vale of Glamorgan residents now have a weekly collection.

Contact

telephone: 01446 700111 or email: visible@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk