Recycling and waste

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The average household produces a tonne of waste each year and we try to keep as much of this as possible away from landfill sites. These pages can help you to reduce, reuse and recycle your household waste. You can also check for any changes to collection dates and times.

• Household waste and recycling centres - find your your nearest facility
• Garden waste - recycle your garden waste in brown wheelie bins
• Kerbside boxes - blue and green recycling boxes for your home
• Mini recycling points -local mini-recycling centres
• Recycling facilities -all Renfrewshire’s facilities
• Refuse collection - collection services for domestic and commercial waste
• Special uplifts – remove large, bulky items of waste from your home
• Tenement flat recycling - tenement properties in Renfrewshire recycle using blue bins
• Trade waste - services available for businesses in Renfrewshire
• Waste prevention - ways to reduce the amount of rubbish you produce
• Waste reduction - initiatives to improve recycling and composting in Renfrewshire

Changes to collection dates and times

We aim to provide a high quality customer service to the residents of Renfrewshire, however sometimes things can go wrong. The table below will be updated on a regular basis to advise of service issues that have arisen with our household waste, kerbside recycling, garden waste or trade waste collections.

Information updated on Tuesday 6th January, 2009.

Collection service	Day and date	Area(s)	Information	Reason
Household waste		All
Paper recycling - blue wheeled bins		All
Kerbside recycling		All
Garden waste			No further collections until Spring 2009. (date to be advised)
Special uplifts		All
Trade waste		All

Schools and recycling

If you are based in a school and want to start reducing, reusing and recycling, please use the Waste Aware Schools website for advice. There is a waste aware school pupil zone and a staff section which provides practical advice about setting up recycling facilities in schools.

Contact information

• email: am-serv.es@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• phone: 0141 889 7995
• fax: 0141 848 5053
• call at our reception desk or write to us at
  Renfrewshire Council
  Environmental services
  Operations Group
  Amenity Services,
  52 Underwood Road,
  Paisley,
  PA3 1TL