In 2007 households in Angus recycled or composted 34.7% of their waste (SEPA, 2008). This is a fantastic achievement.
About the Scheme
Nearly 45,000 households households in Angus have been provided with a green box for recycling household waste and a green bin for recycling garden waste.
Green box
Please note: your local authority green box may differ slightly in appearance
Yes Please
- Cans/Tins (alu/steel)
- Magazines
- Newspaper
- White envelopes
(With windows)
- Office paper
- Contents of junk mail
- Yellow pages
- Telephone directories
- Brochures
- Catalogues
- Leaflets
- Plastic bottles
(type 1 and type 2 plastic)
- Glass bottles/jars
- Empty aerosols
- Biscuit tins
No Thanks
- Foil
- Brown envelopes
- Broken glass
- Cardboard
- Lids (metal or plastic)
- Yoghurt pots
- Margarine tubs
- Plastic food trays
Green Bin
Please note: your local authority Green Bin may differ slightly in appearance
Yes Please
- Flowers & shrubs
- Hedge clippings
- Lawn mowings & weeds
- Sawdust & wood shavings
- Small amounts of shredded paper
- Small branches & bark
No Thanks
- Plastic bags or liners
- Plastics of any kind
- Rubble, soil, stones, turf
- Animal bedding or faeces
- Coffee grinds & tea bags
- Fruit and vegetables
- Cardboard
- General waste
If you would like to know more about the scheme, please contact Angus Council’s ACCESSLine on
08452 777 778 or visit their
website.
Don’t have a kerbside scheme?
There are a number of recycling centres and point across Angus. You can use our
Sort It website to find your nearest.
Want to recycle something else?
If you live within the Angus Council area and want to recycle something that is not collected by the kerbside scheme
there are still several things that you can do.
- Recycle – Your local recycling centres and points often accept a wider range of items than your kerbside scheme. You can find your nearest recycling centre or point on our Sort It website.
- Reuse – A wide range of items from books to bookcases can be reused. You can find reuse outlets (e.g. Charity shops and Furniture charities) on our Sort It website.
- Reduce – Why not go even further and try to reduce the amount of waste that you produce in the
first place. Find out how by visiting the Reduce section of this website.
Where your recycling goes:
Your garden waste is taken to a central composting facility near Forfar, where it is shredded and composted in
large windrows (long rows of compost). The end product is used to cover completed sections of the landfill site and is then sown with grass seed. Angus Council is working to achieve a PAS100 (Publicly Acceptable Standard) certification for the compost. Once this happens, the compost can be used in a number of ways.
Find out what happens to other materials by clicking on the link:
