Residents are provided with a 240L blue-lidded bin for mixed dry recycling, which is emptied every fortnight. Please ensure your bin is clearly presented kerbside, on the pavement, by 6 am on your scheduled collection day. The bin must not be placed on your driveway or boundary, but on the pavement where it is clearly visible for collection. After collection, please remove your bin from the kerbside within 24 hours. You can check your bin collection schedule using our bin day lookup.
For flats and housing complexes, some properties may not be provided with individual wheelie bins but will have access to large communal bins to use for their waste. The same general rules apply for these communal bins.
Changes to recycling in Mansfield
Great news, you can now recycle even more!
Just follow these simple steps:
- Rinse out your items and replace all lids, including trigger and pump sprays.
- Make sure your items are clean and dry.
- Pop your items in the recycling bin (loose)
Please do not put loose trigger and pump sprays in the recycling bin.
Remember glass bottles and jars go in your separate glass recycling container.
Simpler Recycling – What can I recycle?
Only materials that can be recycled can be put into your blue bin. This includes:
- Plastic Bottles, pots, tubs, trays and tubes
- Paper and card
- Tins, cans and aerosol
- Clean foil and metal food trays
- Carton and Tetra Pak
Simpler recycling – Items that cannot be recycled
- Food waste
- Nappies and sanitary waste
- Polystyrene containers and packing
- Plastic film including crisp packets, pet food pouches and plastic bags
- Textiles and clothes
Do not put batteries, vapes or electrical items in any of your kerbside bins. If in doubt use the free recycling checker at www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/recylingchecker.
There are many reasons to recycle including:
- Protecting the environment - recycling stops waste going to landfill. Landfill sites produce lots of methane which contributes to global warming.
- Saving money - if recycling targets aren't met, we may be penalised by national government.
We're running out of room - the UK's landfill sites are filling up. In the future reducing, reusing and recycling may be the only way to deal with the waste.
Too much recycling for your blue bin?
You can put extra recycling next to your blue bin on collection day.
Please make sure it won't blow away - please flatten and bundle up any cardboard and leave tucked behind the blue bin.
Extra loose recycling can be put out in a cardboard box.
However, if you regularly produce large amounts, you can request an additional recycling bin. Larger or additional blue recycling bins will only be provided if the property does not have a history of contaminating the bin with non-recyclable items. Please get in touch to request an additional bin.
Why we should recycle
Wherever possible any waste you produce should be reused or recycled. Recycling waste allows it to be made into something else. Currently, 38% of waste in Mansfield is recycled.
There are many reasons to recycle including:
- Protecting the environment - recycling stops waste going to landfill. Landfill sites produce lots of methane which contributes to global warming.
- Saving money - if recycling targets aren't met we may be penalised by national government.
We're running out of room - the UK's landfill sites are filling up. In the future reducing, reusing and recycling may be the only way to deal with the waste.
Too much recycling for your blue bin?
You can put extra recycling next to your blue bin on collection day.
Please make sure it won't blow away - please flatten and bundle up any cardboard and leave tucked behind the blue bin.
Extra loose recycling can be put out in a cardboard box.
However if you regularly produce large amounts you can request an additional recycling bin. Larger or additional blue recycling bins will only be provided if the property does not have a history of contaminating the bin with non-recyclable items. Please get in touch to request an additional bin.
