How your recycling is collected

In West Oxfordshire, with your help, we are currently recycling or composting 35% of our waste. In 2009/10, 14,500 tonnes of waste were diverted from going into landfill.

New waste and recycling collection service
From November 2010 our crews will collect your recycling boxes and and 'kerbside sort' the materials. Our new trucks will have compartments on the side for the crew to separate the different types of materials. It helps if you rinse and separate your materials within your boxes - but it is not a necessity.

Currently we are using two different types of trucks to collect recycling. Although generally vehicles are assigned to specific rounds we cannot guarantee which type of vehicle will collect your recycling:

Kerbside sorting

The first is a kerbside vehicle. It has five compartments along the side and the crew sort the contents of residents' recycling boxes into these compartments, this is why it helps if residents separate their materials within the boxes. This recycling is then taken to a transfer station in Radley where it is sold on to reprocessing companies.

Mechanical sorting

The second is a standard refuse vehicle which, in some cases, is used for recycling only. This vehicle usually carries round with it wheelie bins and the crew tip the contents of the boxes into the bins which are then emptied into the back of the vehicle. This recycling is taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Ettington called Pure Recycling where it is sorted and sold on to reprocessing companies.