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Your metals recycling explained

Recycling is more valuable when it's clean

Bins out by 8am

Clean, dry and empty

  • Scrunch foil into a ball.
  • No hiss from your aerosols.

Remember to include

  • ✓ Bottle tops and jar lids
  • ✗ Paint or petrol cans
  • ✗ Pringles type tubs
  • ✗ Scrap metal
  • ✗ Food pouches

IMAGE: A green Orkney Islands Council recycling flyer. The logo reads “ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL”. The main text reads: “Your metals recycling explained”; “Bins out by 8am”; “Scrunch foil into a ball”; “No hiss from your aerosols”; “Clean, dry and empty”; “Remember to include bottle tops and jar lids”; “Paint or petrol cans”; “Pringles type tubs”; “Scrap metal”; “Food pouches”; and “Recycling is more valuable when it's clean”. Green and red symbols indicate which items to include or exclude. Illustrations show metal food containers, a foil tray, scrunched foil, aerosol cans and other metal packaging.