Recycling

Weekly Recycling Trial for North Aberdeenshire Rural & Urban Homes

Weekly recycling containers 7,500 homes in northern Aberdeenshire are to be given the chance to take part in a Weekly Recycling Trial, starting 18th May 2009. For the first time, rural homes will also be able to recycle a wide range of materials from the roadside.

Recycle Even More Types of Paper

Paper and Recycling Now you can recycle even more types of paper thanks to our agreement with UPM-Kymmene's Shotton Paper Mill. This includes some types of paper that you previously could not recycle, such as white envelopes (even with plastic windows), greetings cards (without glitter) and telephone directories and Yellow Pages.

Reduce Reuse Recycle Handy Hints

Rip card to reveal colour See our Handy Hints for ways to cut food waste, turn garden waste into something useful and make your recycling more effective.

The online versions of the 11 Handy Hints are in A4 format so you can easily print them off as reminders or as posters (or why not save paper and just keep them on your desktop).

Do You Know What Happens to Your Recycling?

Fleece All of the recyclable materials collected for recycling in Aberdeenshire are recycled. None of it is landfilled. To find out more about where it all goes and what it's used to make, just take a look at our 'What Happens to Your Recycling' page.

Recycling Information Links

Missed Kerbside Collections
Collection Times (Recycling & Refuse)
Replacement Recycling Containers and Bags

Recycling & Refuse Collection Days, Weeks and Calendars

You can check your recycling or refuse collection day and week by using our Local Information Interactive Map. Just put your address in the sapce above the map and then click on 'Recycling' in the menu below the map. It will also show you recycling facilities in your area. You can download FORTNIGHTLY Recycling and Refuse Collection Calendars and FOUR-WEEKLY Rural Paper Recycling Calendars from the Waste Aware Guide page. Your collection times depend upon your location.

There is NO CALENDAR for WEEKLY recycling collections as the collections are on the same day each week. If you did not receive your weekly recycling information pack with details of your recycling collection day, please contact us. We will need your full address, including your post code, to ensure we give you the correct information.

Urban Collection Routes

Urban Communities (300 or more households) which are NOT in the Weekly Recycling Trial receive a fortnightly collection of a black recycling box and white paper recycling sack, except in the case of Fyvie and Rothienorman which were moved from rural to urban collection routes after an expansion in house numbers.

Recycling Box – collected fortnightly
Paper Recycling Sack – collected fortnightly

List of Urban Communities:

Aberchirder*	Insch	Pitmedden
Aboyne	Inverallochy	Portlethen
Alford	Inverbervie	Portsoy*
Ballater	Inverurie	Port Elphinstone
Balmadie	Johnshaven	Potterton
Banchory	Kemnay	Rosehearty
Banff*	Kintore	Rothienorman**
Blackburn	Laurencekirk	Sandhaven
Boddam	Longside	Stonehaven
Braemar	Macduff*	Stuartfield
Crimond	Maud	Strichen
Cruden Bay	Mintlaw	St Combs
Drumoak	Muchalls	St Cyrus
Ellon	Newburgh	Tarland
Fraserburgh	Newmachar	Tarves
Fyvie**	Newtonhill	Torphins
Gardenstown	New Deer	Turriff
Gourdon	New Pitsligo	Westhill
Hatton	Oldmeldrum	Whitehills*
Huntly	Peterhead

* Aberchirder, Banff, Macduff, Whitehills and Portsoy (along with a number of rural households north and west of the River Deveron, previously on a Yellow Monday/Tuesday four-weekly paper recycling collection route) will change to WEEKLY RECYCLING as part of a trial being run from 18 May, 2009.

** Fyvie and Rothienorman, which were previously on rural routes, will receive a Wheeled Blue-Lidded Paper Recycling Bin collection, instead of a Paper Recycling Sack collection.

Rural Collection Routes

Communities not in the list above are classed as Rural Communities (less than 300 households). These households will receive a four-weekly collection of a Wheeled Blue-Lidded Paper Recycling Bin. They are also supplied with a Recycling Box but this is NOT collected. It is provided to store recyclates or transport them to Recycling Points or Centres.

The exception to this arrangement is rural households north and west of the River Deveron, previously on a Yellow Monday/Tuesday four-weekly paper recycling collection route. These will change to WEEKLY RECYCLING as part of a trial being run from 18 May, 2009. As part of this trial, they WILL have their Recycling Boxes collected, along with the White Paper Recycling Sack and Food Waste Bin (all of which will be put out in the Blue-Lidded bin on collection day).

Collection Times

The map below indicates when your recycling containers or refuse bin should be put out for collection:

Blue Area: 6:30am
Green Area: 7:30am

Map showing collection times

Replacement Recycling Boxes & Nets/Covers, Paper Sacks, and Battery Bags

Please contact us first when you need new or replacement containers or covers. These are free of charge.

batteries For your convenience, we have arranged a number of collection points throughout Aberdeenshire for Recycling Boxes (and nets or covers for these), Kerbside Paper Recycling Sacks, and Battery Recycling Bags. These are shown on the 'Container Collection Points' PDF below. Telephone numbers are included in case you wish to check that a collection point is open before you call in. Please note - we cannot store kitchen caddy liner bags for the Weekly Recycling Trial at these locations. You should ask for these by speaking to your recycling collection crew or by leaving them a note on your Recycling Box or Blue-Lidded Bin.