Items for Recycling - Blue-Lidded Paper Bin,
White Sack or Blue Box

 

 

 

Items for Recycling - Blue-Lidded Paper Bin (four-weekly recycling),
White Paper Recycling Sack (weekly or fortnightly recycling)
or Blue Box (Blue Box trial)

 

If you stay in an Urban Community or are in the Weekly Recycling Trial area, you will receive a Paper Recycling Sack. Your Recycling Box for cans, glass bottles & jars, and plastic bottles, will be collected at the same time. This means FORTNIGHTLY unless you are in the Weekly Recycling Trial area, in which case your collection will be WEEKLY.

 

 

If you stay in a Rural Community you will receive a Blue-Lidded Paper Recycling Bin which is collected every four weeks UNLESS you are in the Weekly Recycling Trial area. In this case, your paper will be collected weekly, along with the rest of your recycling, and you should put your recycling containers (including your White Paper Recycling Sack) in the Blue-Lidded Bin on collection day to prevent them blowing away.

 

Householders in Insch and Portsoy have been taking part in a trial of Blue Boxes as an alternative to the White Sack. The boxes are being trialled in response to public feedback as they offer a bit more space for the expanded range of paper and white/grey card we now collect and are less likely to blow away.

 

The yes/no list of materials below is the same for kerbside collections by Blue-Lidded Bin and by Paper Recycling Sack as well as for Recycling Points and Centres.

 

Paper Recycling - yes, please:

Brochures	Catalogues
Greeting cards (without glitter)	Leaflets
Newspapers and magazines	Office/printer paper
Receipts	Telephone directories & Yellow Pages
Travel tickets	White envelopes
	White or grey card

 

Paper Recycling - no, thanks:

• Brown cardboard (the brown fibres are unsuitable for newsprint production)
• Brown envelopes (for the same reason as brown cardboard)
• Books (both hardback and paperback) due to the binder glues, varying and usually coated covers, and age of paper and ink. Please pass books on to be reused, or use a library.
• Plastic wrappers and any other materials not on the 'yes, please' list above.

What Happens to Your Paper Recycling

Find out what happens to your paper and other materials you recycle in Aberdeenshire by visiting our 'What Happens to Your Recycling' page.