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Find out how to reduce, reuse and recycle particular items in Preston by selecting the letter your item begins with.

Top tip: If you can't find your item try searching for the name of the material first. E.g. plastic tub, cardboard box etc.

Cans/tins (food/drinks)

Recycle - put in your yellow lidded recycle bin

Cardboard boxes

Reuse - give away through Freecycle or Freegle
Recycle - put in your red lidded recycle bin

Carpets

Reuse - give away good condition carpet via Freecycle or Freegle
Reuse - ask local animal rescue shelters if they could recondition used carpet into mats
Dispose - book a bulky waste collection or take to your local household waste and recycling centre

Carrier/plastic bags

Reduce - reuse bags you already have when you go shopping to avoid buying more single use plastics
Recycle - take to your local supermarket
Recycle - find a local drop off point at recycle now - plastic film and carrier bags (includes most major supermarkets)
Dispose - put in your grey bin

Cartons/Tetra Pak (flattened)

Recycle - rinse out and take to your local household waste and recycling centre or the University of Central Lancashire Student Union building

Dispose - put in your grey bin

Catalogues and directories

Recycle - put in your red lidded recycle bin

CD/DVDs

Reuse - give away through Freecycle or Freegle
Reuse - take to your local charity shop
Recycle - find a local drop off point through Terracycle

Ceramics

Reuse - give away through Freecycle or Freegle or take to your local charity shop
Dispose - wrap up broken ceramics and put in your grey bin

Cereal boxes

Recycle - put in your red lidded recycle bin

Please note: remove the inner plastic bag before recycling

Cheese packaging (empty)

Recycle - find a local drop off point through Terracycle
Dispose - put in your grey bin

Chocolate and sweet packets

Recycle - find a local drop off point through Terracycle
Dispose - put in your grey bin

Christmas cracker (paper - non glitter)

Recycle - put in your red lidded recycle bin. Remove any ribbons or toys first.

Christmas lights

Reuse - give away through Freecycle or Freegle or take to your local charity shop
Recycle - take broken lights to electrical recycle points or your local household waste and recycling centre

Christmas trees (real)

Recycle - cut up and put in your brown lidded (garden waste) recycling bin

Christmas trees (fake)

Reuse - give away through Freecycle or Freegle

Reuse - take to your local charity shop

Clothes

Reuse - take to your local charity shop or give away through Freecycle or Freegle
Recycle - take to your local household waste and recycling centre

Coat hanger

Reuse - ask charity shops if they need any hangers or give them away through Freecycle or Freegle
Recycle - take to your local household waste and recycling centre*
Dispose - put in your grey bin

*Only hangers not made of mixed materials can be put in the skips - wooden in wood skip, plastic in hard plastic skip, metal in metal skip

Coffee cups

Reduce - Buy a re-usable cup to help reduce your carbon footprint
Recycle - find your local coffee cup recycling point through National Cup Recycling Scheme
Dispose - put in your grey bin