Recycling Information
This list of possible recycling centres is in addition to those offered by the Local Council. If you can add to this list, please contact a member of the Eco Church Committee so that it can be included on this list. Remember to try to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
| Product | Centre | Action required |
| Batteries | Supermarkets | Check your local supermarket for the used battery bins. There is one in Sainsbury’s, West Wickham and Tesco, Bywood. |
| Bayliss and Harding pumps, caps and flexible tubes | www.terracycle.com | Check website for available drop off locations. They will accept Baylis and Harding caps; Baylis and Harding pups and Baylis and Harding flexible plastic lotion tubes and their caps. |
| Bread bags | www.terracycle.com | Check website for available drop off locations. They will accept any brand of bread bag. |
| Carrier Bags | Sainsbury’s | This includes plastic carrier bags and some other vegetable bags. These can be found near the café in the High Street Branch and neat the exit in Station Road |
| Cars | Brooke Action for Working Horses and Donkeys | Visit www.thebrooke.org/get-involved/recycle-cars-cartidges-stamps for details |
| Cheese Packaging | www.terracycle.com | Check website for available drop off locations. They recycle all brands of flexible plastic cheese packaging and nets: any brand of sliced cheese protective plastic film; any brand of individual plastic cheese wrappers; any brand of flexible plastic cheese pouches; labels from cathedral City Minis packs of 6 and any brand of plastic nets for mini cheeses. |
| Cigarette or Tea Cards | Woodgreen Pet Centre | Box at the back of St George’s Church |
| Colgate Oral care | www.terracycle.com | Check website for available drop off locations. They will take any brand of the following: toothbrushes; toothpaste tubes and caps; toothbrush outer packaging; toothpaste cartons; floss containers and outer packaging and electric and battery toothbrush heads. |
| Confectionery packaging | www.terracycle.com | Check website for available drop off locations. They will take: plastic chocolate and sweets pouches and bags; chocolate and sweets multipack outer plastic packaging; plastic chocolate block wrappers and individual chocolate bar wrappers. |
| Contact lenses | www.terracycle.com | Check website for drop off locations. They take: any make of soft disposable contact lenses; any brand of contact lens blister packaging and any brand of foil from the contact lens blister packaging. |
| Crisp packets | www.terracyle.com | Check website for drop off points. They recycle any brand of crisp packets. |
| Foreign Bank Notes and Coins | Leprosy Mission | Post through the letter box of Adele, 12 Peregrine Gardens or Jonathan at 72 Hartland Way |
| Foreign/pre-decimal coins and notes | The British Hedgehog Preservation Society | Send to BHPS, Hedgehog House, Dhustone, Ludlow, SY8 3PL |
| Hand wash | Carex handwash pumps www.terracycle.com | Check website for available drop off locations. They accept all Carex handwash refill pouches and caps.They also take Imperial Leather and Bayley’s of Bond Street. |
| Jewellery | British Hedgehog Preservation Society | Broken gold or silver items, e.g. single earrings, broken chains etc. Send to BHPS, Hedgehog House, Dhustone, Ludlow, SY8 3PL. |
| Jewellery (not costume) | Leprosy Mission | Post through the letter box of Adele, 12 Peregrine Gardens or Jonathan at 72 Hartland Way |
| Laundry Care Recycling | www.terracycle.com | Check the website for available locations as this is currently a drop off location only. They accept: all brands of plastic air freshener containers, cartridge caps and car air fresheners; all brands of flexible laundry washing capsules and pods packaging; all brands of flexible dishwasher tablets, Lenor tumble dryer sheets; all brands of tinted fabric conditioner bottles and caps and all brands of flexible wipe packaging and tinted rigid plastic tubs used for home cleaning |
| Medicine Blister Packs | Marie Curie | Foil and plastic bubble type can be recycled. These benefit Marie Curie. SuperDrug in Beckenham and Central Croydon Hand to Hugh and Helen Aylward at St. George’s |
| Medals | Leprosy Mission | Post through the letter box of Adele, 12 Peregrine Gardens or Jonathan at 72 Hartland Way |
| Milk Bottle Tops | A Rocha | These must be plastic. Please wash and hand to Liz or leave them at 79 Shirley Way. These are taken on masse to a lady in Beckenham for collection by a Portsmouth Firm who turn them into garden furniture. Benefit . Please do not include cola or other tops |
| Mobile Phones | The British Hedgehog Preservation Society | Phones must be working. Send to BHPS, Hedgehog House, Dhustone, Ludlow, SY8 3PL |
| Personal care products | Burt’s Bees personal care packaging www.terracycle.com | Check website for available drop off locations. They will accept all brands: flexible plastic and metallic plastic tubes used for body creams, ointments or moisturisers; flexible plastic packaging used for facial cleansing wipes; eye shadow compacts; lip and cheek highlighter and bronzer sticks; mascara tubes and wands and lipsticks, lip glosses and lip balms. |
| Plastics – soft | Co-Op | Check your local Co-op to see if they are collecting soft plastics such as crisp packets, plastic film from food tubs, bread bags |
| Postcards | Woodgreen Pet Rescue | Box at the back of the St George’s Church |
| Printer Cartridges | British Hedgehog Preservation Society | Ring EAH Recycling on 01473 658161. Ask for BHPS freepost envelopes or lager bags. They cannot accept Epson, Laser or Toner cartridges. |
| Printer Cartridges | Brooke Action for working horses and donkeyswww.thebrooke.org | Visit website and check your cartridges for suitability. Sign up and register to order free recycling box |
| Printer Cartridges | Canon | Request Envelopes – cartridges return to manufacturing process |
| Printer Cartridges | Last Chance Animal Rescue | Ring 01732 865530. They will send you a box. When full, call number on box and it will be collected. A new box will be supplied |
| Printer Cartridges | Other Charitable causes | Google “use your empty cartridges to help raise money for charity”. This produces a list of charities to support: Dogs Trust etc. |
| Printer Cartridges | Printer Cartridge Recyclingwww.printercartridgerecyling.co.uk | Visit website. They pay you for the cartridges. Minimum value they will accept is £10. Once reached they will send you a free label for Royal Mail to attach to a box or jiffy bag. They do not accept Brother or Epson cartridges |
| Seeds | British Hedgehog Preservation Society | Surplus seeds. Send to BHPS, Hedgehog House, Dhustone, Ludlow, SY8 3PL. |
| Stamps | British Hedgehog Preservation Society | Send used stamps. Visit www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk for list of addresses. |
| Stamps | Brooke Action for Working Horses and Donkeys | Visit www.thebrooke.org/get-involved/recycle-cars-cartidges-stamps for details |
| Water filters – Aqua Optima | www.terracycle.com | Check website for drop off points. They will recycle: Aqua Optima Evolve+ and Evolve 30 and 60 day water filters; Aqua Optima Universal water filters and Aqua Optima Original 30 and 60 day water filters. |
| Wipes, cloths and pads | www.terracycle.com | Check website for drop off locations. They recycle: Flash powermop Absorbing pads, Flash Speedmop wet cloths and Flash hand and floor wipes |