What can be recycled
Find out what materials you can recycle in Sandwell and which services you can use to recycle them.
| Material | Kerbside collections | Recycling centres | Household Recycling Centre | Other / more information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerosols | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Metals |
| Adhesives / glues | No | No | HRC | - |
| Asbestos | No | No | Asbestos removal | |
| Batteries - car and household | No | No | HRC | Batteries |
| Beds and cots | No | No | No | Community Transport |
| Bicycles | No | No | HRC | Scrap metal |
| Books | No | No | HRC | Charity shops |
| Cardboard | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Home composting |
| Carpets and rugs | No | No | HRC | Community Transport |
| Cartons | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Cartons |
| Cans | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Metals |
| Ceramics | No | No | HRC | Charity shops |
| Chipboard and MDF | No | No | HRC | - |
| Clothing and textiles |
No
|
Recycling centres | HRC | Charity shops |
| Computers | No | No | HRC | WEEE |
| Cookers | No | No | HRC | WEEE |
| Electrical appliances | No | No | HRC | WEEE |
| Flourescent tubes | No | No | HRC | WEEE |
| Foil | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Metals |
| Fridges and freezers | No | No | HRC | Collection and WEEE |
| Furniture | No | No | No | Community Transport |
| Garden waste | Green wheeled bin | No | HRC | Home composting |
| Gas cylinder | No | No | HRC | Exchange at suppliers |
| Glass bottles and jars | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Glass |
| Greetings cards | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Card |
| Hand tools | No | No | HRC | - |
| Hardcore and rubble | No | No | HRC | - |
| Junk mail | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Reduce junk mail |
| Lightbulbs - energy saving | No | No | HRC | WEEE |
| Liquid chermicals | No | No | HRC | - |
| Mattresses | No | No | HRC | - |
| Medicines | No | No | No | Return to pharmacy |
| Mobile telephones | No | No | HRC | Return to supplier |
| Newspaper and magazines | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Paper |
| Oil - car engine | No | No | HRC | - |
| Oil - cooking | No | No | HRC | - |
| Paint | No | No | HRC | - |
| Paper | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Paper |
| Plaster board | No | No | HRC | - |
| Plastic bags | Blue lids | No | HRC | Plastic bags |
| Plastic bottles | Blue lids | No | HRC | Plastics |
| Scrap metal | No | No | HRC | Scrap metal |
| Shoes | No | Recycling centres | HRC | Charity shops |
| Soil | No | No | HRC | - |
| Telephone directories - white and yellow pages | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | Paper |
| Televisions | No | No | HRC | WEEE |
| Tyres | No | No | HRC | - |
| Wood and timber | No | No | HRC | - |
| Yellow pages | Blue lids | Recycling centres | HRC | - |
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