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Your glass bottles and jars recycling explained

Orkney Islands Council

Bins out by 8am

Rinse please

No liquids. Remove metal tops/lids, pop them in with your cans.

Do not recycle:

  • Mirrors
  • Cookware (eg “Pyrex”)
  • Broken Window Glass
  • Light bulbs

Recycling is more valuable when it's clean

IMAGE: Orkney Islands Council poster headed “Your glass bottles and jars recycling explained”. It shows glass bottles and jars labelled “wine”, “BEER”, “GIN”, “OLIVE”, “Jar”, “FOOD” and “PICKLES”. The poster also contains the text “Bins out by 8am”, “Rinse please”, “No liquids. Remove metal tops/lids, pop them in with your cans”, “Mirrors”, “Cookware (eg “Pyrex”)”, “Broken Window Glass”, “Light bulbs”, “ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL” and “Recycling is more valuable when it's clean”.

Your metals recycling explained

Orkney Islands Council

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

Do not recycle:

  • Paint or petrol cans
  • Pringles type tubs
  • Scrap metal
  • Food pouches

Recycling is more valuable when it's clean

IMAGE: Orkney Islands Council poster headed “Your metals recycling explained”. It shows metal recycling examples including a foil tray, a ball of scrunched foil, cans, an aerosol can and food tins. The poster also contains the text “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”, “ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL” and “Recycling is more valuable when it's clean”.

Your paper and thin card recycling explained

Orkney Islands Council

Bins out by 8am

Clean recycling please, no food waste

Do not recycle:

  • Corrugated cardboard
  • Large catalogues
  • Juice cartons
  • Egg boxes

Take cardboard boxes to your local recycling centre.

Recycling is more valuable when it's clean

IMAGE: Orkney Islands Council poster headed “Your paper and thin card recycling explained”. It shows examples of paper and thin card, including a cat food box, a cereal box, a food package, mail, a cardboard tube, a tissue box, sheets of paper and a newspaper labelled “NEWS”. The poster also contains the text “Bins out by 8am”, “Clean recycling please, no food waste”, “Take cardboard boxes to your local recycling centre”, “Egg boxes”, “Large catalogues”, “Juice cartons”, “Corrugated cardboard”, “ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL” and “Recycling is more valuable when it's clean”.

Your Plastic recycling explained

Orkney Islands Council

Bins out by 8am

Plastic bottles only

Rinse please. Leave lids on and squash.

Do not recycle:

  • Food containers (e.g. margarine tubs, fruit and meat trays)
  • Yogurt pots
  • Plastic bags or film

No other plastics.

Recycling is more valuable when it's clean

IMAGE: Orkney Islands Council poster headed “Your Plastic recycling explained”. It shows plastic bottles labelled “MILK”, “SHAMPOO” and other bottles, plus spray and cleaning bottles. The poster also contains the text “Bins out by 8am”, “Plastic bottles only”, “Rinse please. Leave lids on and squash”, “No other plastics”, “Food containers (e.g. margarine tubs, fruit and meat trays)”, “Yogurt pots”, “Plastic bags or film”, “ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL” and “Recycling is more valuable when it's clean”.