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Junk Mail
Junk mail can be placed in your green box along with magazines
and newspapers. Window envelopes cannot be recycled. The best way
to dispose of junk mail is to stop receiving it. To do this
register with the Mail Preference Service at this address:
Mail Preference Service
FREEPOST 22
London
W1E IE2
Or you can log on and register online at the Mail Preference Service
website. Placing a notice on your door stating you do not wish
to receive free items of mail may also help.
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Knitting
Local charities are likely to accept both unwanted wool and
equipment.
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Magazines
Offer readable ones to local hospitals, doctor and dental
surgeries. Unreadable ones can be recycled in your kerbside box or
local
NRC
.
Medicines
Return unwanted or expired medicines to a dispensing
chemist.
Metals
Scrap metals and metallic items can be taken to the household
waste site, where it is recycled via a network of scrap
dealers into a wide range of products.
Milk bottles
These should be returned to your milkman.
Mobiles Phones
Support charities by donating your mobile phones either via
charity shops or post. Mobiles phones can also be taken to the
household waste site where they either re-used or recycled into
their component parts.
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Newspapers
Newspapers can be placed in your kerbside
box for collection or taken to the NRCs.
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Oil
Waste oil is contaminated with a whole range of chemicals and
could pollute the water supply. It is illegal to pour waste engine
oil down the drain. Waste oil can be taken to
the
HWRC
where it is cleaned and recycled as
lower grade engine oil.