Where and What to Recycle

• Aluminium foil
• Alternate weekly collection
• Bag It Up
• Batteries
• Bring banks
• Books
• Christmas trees
• Computer Equipment
• Household waste recycling centres
• Kerbside Garden Waste
• Kerbside Glass
• Shoes
• Yellow Pages

Aluminium Foil

Aluminium foil can be taken to four recycling sites across the borough. They are located at:

• Hedge End Park (near Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencers)
• ASDA Chandlers Ford
• Tesco Bursledon
• Mortimer Road car park, Botley.

The local council then finds suitable places to plant them, enhancing the local landscape.

Alternate Weekly Collection

Bag It Up

In 2006, Tradehouse Ltd launched BAG IT UP, a series of recycling schemes and campaigns to help maximise the funds available for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance charity. Listed below are some of the ways you can help. Please visit http://www.bagitup.org.uk/ for more information.

Clothes, Shoes and Textiles

Bag It Up recycles any unwanted clothing, shoes and household textiles. Good quality items which can be reused are sold to second-hand clothing traders in the UK and worldwide. 'End of life' garments are recycled into industrial wipers and cloths, mattress filling, insulation and new fibres.

By donating your unwanted garments, Bag It Up raises vital funds for your local charity, reduces waste at landfill sites and provides an affordable clothing supply to communities worldwide.

You can donate your clothing, shoes and textiles to any of our partner charities by using our textile bring banks situated at household waste sites, supermarkets and car parks.

Mobile Phones

There are over 25 million unwanted or unused mobile phones currently in this country. This equates to approximately 2,500 tonnes of waste, some of which is toxic and could end up in a landfill.

Mobile phones place a huge burden on the world's natural resources. Crude oil, metals, and their manufacturing processes all take their toll.

Bag It Up have partnered with one of the leading mobile phone recyclers to ensure that there is an alternative to landfill and makes sure that your mobile phone raises money for local charities. Recycled mobile phones provides communications for developing countries, businesses and the public and by doing so helps to preserve and protect the environment for future generations.

Recycling a mobile phone couldn't be easier. Please visit the Bag It Up website to request a Freepost envelope or to download the Freepost address label for you to attach to an envelope. Place your phones in the envelope and drop them in a local post box.

Ink and Toner Cartridges

Over 50 million inkjet cartridges are used in this country every year, yet only around 10% are actually recycled. This equates to around 14,000 tonnes of material that will take at least 1,000 years to biodegrade having been dumped into a landfill.

Inkjet and toner cartridges place a huge burden on the world's natural resources. Crude oil, metals and their manufacturing processes all their toll.

Bag It Up has partnered with leading ink and toner recyclers to ensure that there is alternative to landfill and makes sure that your old cartridges not only raise money for local charities they also helps provide businesses and the public with recycled printer cartridges which helps to preserve and protect the environment for future generations.

Recycling ink cartridges couldn't be easier. Please visit the Bag It Up website to request a Freepost envelope or to download the Freepost address label for you to attach to an envelope. Place your Ink and Toner Cartridges in the envelope and drop them in a local post box.

Batteries

All residents of Eastleigh Borough council are now able take part in one of the battery collection schemes.

For those residents who have access to the kerbside black box glass collection scheme, you are able to have your batteries collected from the kerbside in the battery bags provided.

To request additional battery bags please contact The Recycling Team on 023 8068 8318.

Battery Bring Banks

Residents who have a shared glass collection scheme or do not yet have access to a collection are able to take their batteries to one of the 12 bring sites listed below:

Bring Banks

• You can now help Hampshire Air Ambulance by donating your old clothing and material at one of the five sites across Eastleigh Borough. The collection banks have been placed at the following locations:

Hedge End Park Recycling Area (JS / Marks and Spencers), Hedge End

Two Brothers PH, Townhill Way, West End

Bishopstoke Recreation Ground, Bishopstoke Road, Eastleigh

Falkland Court, Falkland Road, Chandlers Ford                                           

ASDA, Chandlers Ford

Books

If they can no longer be used then your books can be recycled at 5 sites across the borough:

• Moorgreen Hospital
• Sainsbury's Superstore, Hedge End Park
• Asda Superstore, Chandlers Ford
• Tesco Superstore, Bursledon
• Mortimer's Road Car Park                 

Christmas Trees

• Over Six Million Trees were bought in the UK last Christmas.
• Most of which were thrown away after December, creating over 9,000 tonnes of additional rubbish.
• This is almost five times the weight of the London Eye 
   

• Lakeside Country Park, Wide Lane, Eastleigh 
• Haskins Garden Centre - Mansbridge Road, West End
• Wyevale Garden Centre - Winchester Road Fair Oak
• Brambridge Garden Centre - Brambridge, Near Winchester
• Mortimer Road Car Park - Botley
• Hedge End Bowls Club - Woodhouse Lane, Hedge End 
• Homebase - Hedge End Retail Park
• Arturi's Garden Centre - Allington Lane, Fair Oak
• Household Waste and Recycling Centre - Shamblehurst Lane, Hedge End
• Household Waste and Recycling Centre - Knowle Lane, Fair Oak
• Household Waste and Recycling Centre - Woodside Avenue, Eastleigh
• Household Waste and Recycling Centre - Grange Road, Netley

Computer Equipment

We all know that you can buy a computer and within 12 months it's out of date so why not donate your old equipment to charity? Computers for Charity is a non-profit making partnership offering free UK collection of redundant computer systems from businesses and individuals.

After all data, programs and security labels are removed, the computers are shipped

to various projects to help set up computer suites for children in Africa.

View the Computers for Charity website or contact them using the details below:

Telephone : 01288 36 11 77

Email : graham@cfcuk.org

Household Waste Recycling Centres

• Woodside Avenue, Eastleigh               02380 644106
• Knowle Lane, Fair Oak                       02380 694541
• Shamblehurst Lane, Hedge End          01489 780028
• Grange Road, Netley                          02380 406182

• 8am (9am on Sundays) to 7pm  (Summer : 1 April  to 30 September)
• 8am (9am on Sundays) to 4pm  (Winter :    1 October to 31 March) 

Please note:- Due to requests from HSE regarding lighting levels on the above sites, it has now been agreed that  from 14 November until 31 March, all HWRC sites will close at 4pm. 

• Frequently asked questions regarding Household Waste Recycling Centres

Kerbside Garden Waste

What you get for your money 

Kerbside Glass Collection Service

                      

• Glass recycling information.  pdf

Shoes

Yellow Pages

You are now able to recycle your old copy of the Yellow Pages at eight collection points across the Borough! Until now, the vast majority of directories would end up in landfill as they cannot be processed with other paper material in our recycling bins.

Millions of old Yellow Pages are recycled every year, most often into cardboard, loft insulation, packaging materials, jiffy bags, egg boxes, animal bedding and also newsprint material.

You can find collection banks at the following locations:

• Waitrose, Chandler's Ford

Please note that the collection banks will be available between the 1st of May and 1st of August each year.

If you do not wish to receive future copies of the Yellow pages directory you can call the Yell Group on 0800 671444.