Recycling information from Wiltshire Council

Keep up to date with rubbish and recycling by visiting our website Rubbish and recycling – Wiltshire Council

We’re excited to offer Wiltshire residents a fantastic deal on the Green Johanna food waste composter, thanks to our partnership with Great Green Systems.

Get your Green Johanna for just £70 (subsidised from £144.99)!

Why choose the Green Johanna?

• Top-performing hot composter: transforms all food waste (cooked and uncooked) and garden waste into high-quality compost within months.
• Highly recommended: featured as a Best Buy in Gardeners’ World magazine and Which.
• Smart design: enclosed unit with a perforated base plate, allowing access to worms and micro-organisms while keeping rodents out

Batteries and electricals contaminating bins can cause fires.

Unfortunately we have experienced three incidents of waste catching fire in our refuse vehicles in the past month. Thanks to the prompt action of the crew, there have been no injuries or significant damage to the vehicle.

Never put batteries or electricals in any bin, instead make use of the kerbside services available to you:

 Electricals smaller than a shoe box can be collected at the kerbside, by placing these next to your recycling bin in a supermarket carrier bag.

Recycle larger electricals by bringing them to a recycling centre.

Recycle batteries by leaving them in a clear sealed bag on top of your blue-lidded bin or next to your blue sack on collection day.

Still making your way through those Easter treats?

Crack Easter recycling by checking out the eggcellent recycling tips below!

1. Remember to recycle foil wrapping. Simply scrunch the foil into a loose ball along with any other bits of used foil (including from smaller eggs) and pop it into your blue-lidded bin.
2. When you’ve have finished with your hot cross buns, remove the inner cardboard and recycle. The plastic wrapping cannot be recycled at the kerbside so should either be taken to your nearest flexible plastic recycling scheme or go in your household waste bin.

Our Household Recycling Centres are now open from 9am each opening day instead of 10am as part of our summer opening times.

Our sites in Salisbury, Trowbridge and Stanton St Quintin (Chippenham) will also open for an additional day per week.

Save time by sorting your waste before visiting. If you don’t have time at home, make use of the sorting tables while on site.

Myth – all recyclables must be perfectly clean.

Fact – while it’s good to rinse items, they don’t need to be spotless. A quick rinse is usually enough.

Make your food last longer with this hack 

Fruit, except bananas and pineapples, keeps fresher for longer in the fridge. Take out what you’ll eat that day so it’s at room temperature for the best taste.

Recycle your medicine and vitamin blister packets at Boots!

Boots has now extended their blister pack recycling scheme to include a number of stores across Wiltshire. These include stores in:

• Melksham
• Trowbridge
• Devizes
• Chippenham
• Warminster
• Salisbury

You can find out more about this scheme and where their nearest participating store is on the Boots website here –  Recycle your medicine & vitamin blister packets

Unfortunately, as medicinal blister packs are made of mixed materials (plastic and foil) we are unable to accept these items in with our kerbside recycling collections. If you are unable to recycle them using the Boots recycling scheme, place them in your household waste bin, where they will be sent to energy recovery.

Save money and resources by using items again and again and again.

Repair broken items and support local communities. There are several repair cafes across the county where you can take your broken items and volunteers will fix them for you! Here are some upcoming events to look out for:

• Every Wednesday and Friday: Lover Repair Café – Salisbury between 10am to 12pm.
• Every third Saturday of the month: Repair Café Malmesbury, between 10am to 2pm.
• Saturday 10 May: Salisbury Repair Cafe between 9.30am to 12pm.
• Saturday 17 May: Share and Repair Larkhill between 10am to 1pm.
• Saturday 17 May: Share and Repair Bradford-on-Avon between 10am to 1pm.
• Saturday 24 May: Share and Repair Corsham between 10.45 am to 12.30pm.

Donate your unwanted toys to good causes at our recycling centres 

You can donate your reusable toys to local charities and children in need by dropping them off at a Toys4Life collection bank. These banks are located at the following recycling centres:

• Amesbury: Mills Way, SP4 7RX
• Devizes: Hopton Industrial Estate, SN10 2EU
• Marlborough: Salisbury Road, SN8 4AE
• Melksham: Bowerhill Industrial Estate, SN12 6QT
• Salisbury: Churchfields Industrial Estate, SP2 7BU
• Stanton St Quintin: Sutton Benger Road, SN14 6BD
• Trowbridge: Canal Road, BA14 8QU
• Warminster: Furnax Lane, BA12 8PE