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Kettle
If your kettle still works, please donate it to a charity shop or your local reuse organisation. You can recycle your kettle by taking it to your nearest bring site that has a WEEE bank (see W for a list of WEEE banks) or to your nearest recycling centre, where you can put it in the small waste electrical container. The metal and plastic will be recycled into new products.
Kitchen foil
Kitchen roll
Try to always use kitchen roll made from recycled paper. Used kitchen roll can be added to your compost bin/heap where it will rot down to produce compost for the garden. The cardboard inner tube can be recycled by putting it in your green recycling bin. It will recycled into new cardboard products.
Knives
You can recycle your old, unwanted knives by taking them to your nearest recycling site and putting them in the scrap metal container.
Lamp and light fittings
If these are still in working order, please donate them to your local charity shop or reuse organisation. If they are not good enough to reuse please recycle your lamp/light fitting by taking it to your nearest recycling centre, where you can put it in the small electrical waste container.
Leaflets
Please recycle your unwanted leaflets and flyers in your green recycling bin, your nearest bring site or recycling centre . They will be recycled into new paper products.
Lightbulbs
Try to buy low energy lightbulbs, particularly for rooms where lights are left on for long periods of time. This will save money on energy and by not replacing lightbulbs so often. Low energy lightbulbs can be recycled at your nearest household waste recycling centre. Other types of (incandescent) lightbulbs cannot be recycled at present. These should be wrapped in newspaper and placed in your black household bin.
