New recycling regime

Our shiny new recycling wheelie bins have arrived!

You now have at least three bins, and possibly four or even five, to store around your house:

• Green or black household bins for anything that cannot go into any of the other bins are collected twice every four weeks
• Blue-lidded bins for newspaper, magazine, cardboard, greeting card, paper, junk mail, envelopes, grey card and white card recycling are collected once every four weeks
• Red-lidded bins for plastic bottle, plastic pot, plastic tray, tin, can, aerosol, glass jar, glass bottle, clean foil and carton recycling are collected once every four weeks
• Brown garden waste bins for cuttings, clippings and small twigs are collected every fortnight between March and November (if you have purchased a garden waste licence)

Please put everything into your red- or blue-lidded recycling bins loose and do not use plastic sacks.

Collection schedule

Wheelie bins (excluding brown garden waste bins) are typically collected on Friday mornings. Collection schedules may vary over the Christmas and New Year holidays and, if possible, will be published on the village website  and in the diary.

Please leave your bins on the roadside by 6 am on collection days.

Brown garden waste bins are collected every other Tuesday. Again, please leave your bins on the roadside by 6 am on collection days.

Collection dates

Please check the calendar at https://nunnington.net/calendar-months/ to determine which bin to place out on a specific day.

The schedule over the changeover period seems to be as follows:

• Friday 20 June: old-style recycling (boxes for glass, plastic and metal, and paper) according to the old NYC collections calendar
• Tuesday 24 June: garden waste collection
• Friday 27 June: household waste collection (green or black bins)
• Friday 4 July: mixed waste recycling (red-lidded bin)
• Tuesday 8 July: garden waste collection
• Friday 11 July: household waste collection (green or black bins)
• Friday 18 July: paper waste recycling (blue-lidded bin)
• Tuesday 22 July: garden waste collection
• Friday 25 July: household waste collection (green or black bins)

Dates will also be available on the NYC website from 23 June at northyorks.gov.uk/calendar

FAQs

• Old recycling boxes can be kept or taken to a recycling centre (see below)
• You can order additional bins from https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/bins
• If you put the wrong stuff in a bin, it will be tagged and left unemptied
• Assisted collections will continue, but the dates and times may change

Recycling centre

Wimbledon (https://w3w.co/nuzzling.lays.persuade) is our nearest recycling centre (https://shm.to/MEDTk08) where you can recycle:

• Old recycling boxes
• Mixed textiles and clothes (will be turned into shoddy, so take wearable clothes to a charity
• Batteries
• E-cigarettes and vapes
• Electrical appliances
• Plastic bags and wrappings
• Vehicle tyres (chargeable)
• Commercial waste (some free, some chargeable)
• DIY waste (mainly free)

The site is open every day except Wednesdays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

• April to September – 8.30 am to 5 pm
• October to March – 8.30 am to 4 pm

Please allow enough time to unload your waste before the site closes.

An idea

If one of your bins is consistently full to overflowing, don’t buy another bin or take an unnecessary trip to Wombleton, but find a friendly neighbour willing to share a less-than-full bin.

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