Waste & recycling

Your weekly collections

It's easy to find out when your collection days are. All you have to do is visit the My West Oxfordshire section.

You can also check for bank holiday collection day changes.

A weekly waste and recycling kerbside collection service is provided for all households in the District. There is a wheeled bin for non-recyclable refuse and black boxes for your recycling.

For a comprehensive A-Z guide to Waste and Recycling in the district click here.

Reducing, reusing and recycling

Using your black recycling box is fantastic but it's just the start of what you can do...

Reducing the amount of waste we produce in the first instance is by far the best approach we can take to the problem of the heavy impact of our waste upon the environment.

To help everyone discover how to reduce waste and what else you can do reduce, reuse and recycle are the three important steps you need to remember.

Our waste impacts heavily on our environment, both in terms of the depletion of natural resources to produce everyday goods and in terms of the current reliance on landfill sites, and is an unsustainable part of modern living.

LATEST WASTE & RECYCLING NEWS:

Yellow Pages Directory Recycling

Your old Yellow Pages directories can now be recycled along with the other recycling in your kerbside collection box.

For more information on your Yellow Pages Directory please visit our Yellow Pages Recycling page.

Paint

Oxfordshire County Council's Waste and Recycling Centres are unable to accept liquid paint, as it could contaminate landfill sites, so if you can't use it up or find it a good home by giving it away you will need to harden it before disposal. You can buy a paint hardener, or add sawdust, sand or soil to the tin and leave the lid off until the paint becomes solid and dry (please pierce the dried paint before taking it to a Waste and Recycling Centre to make sure it's fully hardened).

Clean and dry metal paint tins can be thrown into the scrap metal banks at any Waste and Recycling Centre, but plastic or tins with hardened paint in must be landfilled.

Three RePaint outlets are now open in Oxfordshire. In addition to the Orinoco Scrapstore in Oxford, you may now get paint from: the Emmaus furniture store in Northway, Oxford; Berinsfiled Employment Action Group, Berinsfield and Oxford Wood Recycling, Milton Park, Abingdon / Didcot.
Please visit www.oxorinoco.org for further information and details of what types of paint are accepted.

**PLEASE NOTE**: There are important things which you need to consider when getting rid of old paint - please read this excellent guide - 'what to do with waste paint' courtesy of Orinoco, Oxford.

Further information

If you would like further information about our waste and recycling services, please contact the Council on 01993 861020 or email env.services@westoxon.gov.uk.