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Cans

Please put all food, drink and pet cans into your:

Cardboard packaging

Please put this into your:

If you have larger cardboard, please flat pack and place beside the recycling trolley or blue-top bin for collection.

Carpets and rugs

Carpets and rugs can be:

Cartons (food, drinks, detergents)

Please put these into your:

CDs

Unwanted CD's and plastic cases can be recycled via the bric-a-brac banks at Recycling Centres.

Christmas tree

As garden waste collections begin in March each year, please take real trees to your nearest Recycling Centre and place into the green garden waste recycling container.

Cling film

Please put this into your:

  • red-top bin if you are using the new bin collection service, or
  • green bin

Clothes

All items of clean, bagged clothing, including shoes, can be:

Coffee pods

Used plastic and aluminium coffee pods can be recycled with Podback, the pod recycling service. There are drop-off points at our Recycling Centres and in selected local supermarkets.

Find out how to recycle coffee pods with Podback

Computers

These can be traded in against a new product or alternatively take to your nearest Recycling Centre for recycling.

Compost

All green garden waste collected by us is converted into a soil improver, which can then be collected by residents, free of charge, from the Recycling Centres via our Compost to go scheme.

Cookers

All redundant white goods should be recycled. You can take these to:

Cooking oil

Used cooking oil can be recycled at the Recycling Centres. Collected oil is recycled into a biodiesel product.

Crisp bags

Please put these into your:

  • red-top bin if you are using the new bin collection service, or
  • green bin

Cutlery

Please take any usable cutlery to your nearest charity shop, or put it into your green bin.

Cylinders

Butane gas cylinders can be taken to your nearest Recycling Centre.

Contact Information

Cleaner Communities
Western Road Depot
Kilmarnock
East Ayrshire
KA3 1LL
Telephone: 01563 554400 (Option 6)