This page gives you information about where you can find local recycling points and what you can recycle. There are over 100 recycling points around the city to help you recycle items that can’t be collected from your home.
These banks are run by the council, however there are many other recycling facilities around the city run by other organisations which take a variety of materials for recycling.
What you can recycle:
You can leave the metal lids on the bottles and jars and they will be recycled too.
What we don’t take:
These glass items are treated to be heat-resistant and therefore cannot be processed with glass bottles and jars. When discarding, please wrap these safely in paper and place them in your rubbish or take to the Recycling Centre at Port Solent.
Where it goes and what happens to it:
The glass is taken to the Portsmouth Veolia facility for sorting before being sent to re-processors. For more information on how glass is recycled visit Hampshire County Council’s website.
What you can recycle:
What we don’t take:
Where it goes and what happens to it:
Instead of going to the Portsmouth Material Recovery Facility, the plastics are collected by our partner Biffa Commercial and sent to one of their re-processing facilities in the UK (Biffa Polymers). Biffa Polymers then shred, wash, and pelletise them, ready to be made back into food containers where possible and other products where not. For more information, visit Plastic Recycling | Biffa.
Where are the plastics banks:
What you can recycle:
What we don’t take:
Where it goes and what happens to it:
What you can recycle:
What we don’t take:
Where it goes and what happens to it:
For more information visit the ACE UK website.
Where are the carton banks:
What you can recycle:
What we don’t take:
Where it goes and what happens to it:
The British Heart Foundation collects these items and sells them in their shops to raise funds for the charity.
