How to Dispose of all your waste
If you are unsure of how to dispose of an item of waste, this alphabetical list should be able to assist you. Simply click on the relevant letter below. If your waste item does not appear in this list, please email customerservices@fareham.gov.uk for advice, and we will endeavour to add it to the list.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Aerosols: Not currently collected for recycling. Put in
household refuse bin.
Alternate bin collections: Recyclables and refuse are collected on
an alternate bin collection service .
Aluminium cans: Put in blue
top recycling bin.
Aluminium foil: Not collected in kerbside bins for recycling.
Take clean foil to Fareham Community Action, Osborn Road South; or
foil recycling bin at Tesco Bursledon, or put in household refuse bin.
Asbestos: Householders can dispose of asbestos from their home free of charge at Port Solent Household Waste Recycling Centre, but they must telephone first to ensure there is enough room in the container; and it must be double wrapped in plastic or polythene sheeting, and they must use a vehicle which fits under the height barrier - 1.75m or 5'9". Visitors to the HWRC who have not done so will be turned away. Not all HWRCs are licensed to accept asbestos. The telephone number for the Port Solent site is 023 9221 9819 Trade companies and builders should contact the Health & Safety Executive (this is an external hyperlink) for advice, on 01256 404000.
Batteries: Classed as hazardous waste, so can be collected at
those Household Waste Recycling Centres
licensed to take hazardous household waste, visit www.integra.org.uk (this is an external hyperlink) for
further details. On arrival at a site, please ask site staff to
direct you to the red wheeled bin where the batteries will be
collected. All types of household batteries are accepted,
as long as they have not started to corrode and leak fluid.
Small amounts of household batteries can be put in the household
refuse bin, in bags, to avoid a special car journey. This
does not apply to car batteries; they must be taken to the
Household Waste Recycling Centres.
Bedding: See Household Textiles.
Blankets: See Household Textiles.
Books: Take to charity shop or book
bank
Bottles:
- Glass Bottles: Take to Glass Bank.
- Plastic Bottles: Put in blue top recycling bin.
Brita Water Filters: Cannot be put in household recycling bins, but facilities are available. From 2 June 2008, BRITA’s blue recycling bins will be found at 157 Tesco stores across the UK and will appear at selected Waitrose and Sainsbury’s from July. BRITA has also set-up in-store recycling schemes with some of the UK’s biggest retailers including: Argos, John Lewis, Robert Dyas and many independent stores. Customers simply need to visit www.brita.co.uk/recycle (this is an external hyperlink)and enter their postcode into the store locator to find their nearest participating retailers.
Building Rubble: Small amounts from households own DIY
projects can be taken, in bags to the
Household Waste Recycling Centres. Commercial builders
must arrange disposal of their own waste as this is classed as
trade waste and cannot be taken to the Household Waste Recycling
Centres.
Bulky Waste: Fareham Council will collect
bulky waste from your property for disposal. Good quality furniture and electrical goods can be donated to the British Heart Foundation shop at 20, West Street, Fareham PO16 0LQ. To arrange free collection within 48 hours, telephone 01329 825847.
Camping or caravanning gas bottles: Return to camping shop, or
take to Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Other types of gas
bottles are not accepted at HWRCs (225 Kb) 
.
Cans: Put in blue top
recycling bin (please rinse). Large metal sweet or biscuit tins can go in the blue top recycling bin, but no larger items. There is a physical size limit because large items will not fit under the magnet which runs over the top of the conveyor belt at the sorting plant. Any tins or cans up to the size of a large tin are acceptable.
Car batteries: Take to the Household Waste
Recycling Centres.
Cars and unwanted vehicles: Please visit www.yell.com
(this is an external hyperlink) for details of car and commercial vehicle dismantlers.
Car tyres: The Household Waste Recycling
Centres will take one or two from householders. If you have a
lot, please visit www.yell.com (this is an external hyperlink) for details of tyre dealers,
who may take them for disposal, but will charge.
Cards: Put in blue top
recycling bin.
Cardboard: Put in blue top
recycling bin.
Catalogues: Put in blue top
recycling bin.
CDs, videos, DVDs: Take to charity shop or put in book banks.
Chemicals: Household, for example cleaning, DIY chemicals:
Further advice on disposing of hazardous household waste is
available.
Christmas trees: Take to the Household Waste
Recycling Centres. Artificial ones can of course be reused.
Clothes, accessories, household textiles: Put in Textile Bank or
take to a charity shop. Charity shops can only sell good quality clothes, but clothes which are worn can be recycled in the textile banks.
Coats: See Clothes.
Collection of recyclables and refuse: Recyclables and refuse are collected on
alternate weeks.
Complaint or comment? If you have a complaint or comment about
rubbish or recycling, please
contact us and we will try to help.
Composite cartons, waxed juice or milk cartons: Cannot be
recycled; put in household refuse bin.
Computer equipment: There are a number of companies who may take computer equipment for recycling. Jamie's
Computer Club (this is an external hyperlink), in Southampton take equipment for
reuse. it-green.co.uk (this is an external hyperlink) are licensed to remove IT waste from premises within the UK . Maxitech Limited (this is an external hyperlink) provide a recycling service for computer and
electronic equipment for local businesses in the Fareham area.
Cooking Oil: See entry under 'Oil'.
Directories: Put in blue
top recycling bin. Except Yellow Pages - put them in
household refuse bin or a paper bank - see Yellow Pages entry.
Drink cans: Put in blue top
recycling bin (please rinse).
Duvet covers: See Household Textiles.
Duvets: Cannot be put in textile banks;
dispose of in refuse bin if they are beyond reuse through a
Charity Shop.
DVDs, CDs, videos: Take to charity shop or put in book banks.
Electrical goods: Good quality electrical goods and furniture can be donated to the British Heart Foundation shop at 20, West Street, Fareham PO16 0LQ. To arrange free collection for large items within 48 hours, telephone 01329 825847. Broken items should be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centre, or Fareham Council will collect bulky waste from your property for disposal. Small items such as toasters can be put in the refuse bin.
Engine Oil: See entry under 'Oil'.
Fire Extinguishers: Take to Household Waste Recycling Centre. If it contains Halon, a hazardous gas which is now prohibited, please visit www.yell.com (this is an external hyperlink) for a company which deals with Fire Extinguishing Equipment.
Fish tank chemicals: If hazardous, they should be taken to a Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Food tins: Put in blue top
recycling bin (please rinse).
Fruit peelings (uncooked): Put in home
composter, or in household refuse bin.
Food waste: Meat, fish, cooked food: Put in household refuse bin.
Food waste can be disposed of at home in a special food waste digester. Uncooked fruit & vegetable waste: Put in home composter, or in household
refuse bin.
Freezers: Fareham Borough Council will collect freezers. Please telephone 01329 236100. The British Heart Foundation shop will take good ones, see 'Furniture' for details.
Fridges: Fareham Borough Council will collect fridges. Please telephone 01329 236100. The British Heart Foundation shop will take good ones, see 'Furniture' for details.
Furniture: Good quality furniture and electrical goods can be donated to the British Heart Foundation shop at 20, West Street, Fareham PO16 0LQ. To arrange free collection within 48 hours, telephone 01329 825847. Fareham Borough Council will collect bulky waste from your property for disposal.
Garden waste: Put in home composter, or take to Household Waste Recycling Centre, or use the Council's Garden Waste Collection Service.
Gas bottles: Domestic camping/caravanning lpg bottles - return to
camping shop, or take to Household Waste
Recycling Centre Other types of gas bottles are not accepted at HWRCs (225 Kb) .
Glass: Take to Glass Bank.
Handbags: See Clothes.
Hats, scarves etc: See Clothes.
Hazardous waste from the household, for example cleaning, DIY
chemicals: Further advice on disposing
of hazardous household waste is available.
Household textiles, eg duvet covers, blankets, curtains, towels, tablecloths etc: Put in Textile Bank or take to a charity shop. Charity shops can only sell good quality items, but worn ones can be recycled in the textile banks. Duvets, pillows and sleeping bags cannot be put in textile banks;
dispose of in refuse bin if they are beyond reuse through a
Charity Shop.
How much waste are we recycling?
Jars: Take to Glass Bank. Metal
lids can go in blue top
recycling bin.
Juice cartons: Cardboard ones cannot be recycled. Put in
household refuse bin. Plastic bottles: put in blue top recycling bin.
Junk mail: Put in blue top
recycling bin; put all plastic wrapping in household refuse
bin. See Plastic Bags entry for details of a recycling company where you can post the plastic film wrappings. Contact the Mailing Preference Service (this is an external hyperlink) to reduce junk
mail (and unwanted telephone calls & faxes).
Kitchen waste: Meat, fish, cooked food: Put in household refuse bin. Uncooked fruit & vegetable waste: Put in home composter, or in household refuse bin.
Lids: Metal jar lids - put in blue top recycling bin. Bottle lids (for example beer bottles, metal screw caps) - put in refuse bin. They are too small for the recycling processing machinery, which screens them out. Plastic milk bottle lids are no longer being collected by Naomi House Children's Hospice shops; they can be taken to the collection point in Fareham Shopping Centre, until the end of May 2007.
Liquids: No liquid of any sort is acceptable in the refuse bin because it spills out along the road.
Litter: Street sweepings and litter from bins are disposed of to
landfill.
LPG bottles: Domestic camping/caravanning lpg bottles - return to
camping shop, or take to Household Waste
Recycling Centre Other types of gas bottles are
not accepted at HWRCs (225 Kb) .
Magazines: Put in blue top
recycling bin.
Margarine tubs: Cannot be recycled, put in household refuse bin.
Meat, fish: Put in household refuse bin. Food waste can be disposed of at home in a special food waste digester.
Mercury thermometers: Take to a Household Waste Recycling Centre which accepts hazardous waste. If the thermometer is broken, take great care when collecting the mercury. Wear rubber gloves, and collect the mercury into a glass jar with a lid.
Milk bottle tops: Plastic milk bottle tops can be taken to the RSPCA Stubbington Ark Centre, in Ranvilles Lane, Fareham. All colours are collected, but only milk bottle lids are accepted. No other type of plastic bottle lid is accepted.
Mobile phones: Can be recycled by a variety of charity schemes,
or take to Oxfam shop. Waste & Recycling Officers have envelopes available to post phones for recycling for charity; please contact us if you would like one.
Metal: Cans and tins: put in blue
top recycling bin. Other metal items can be recycled at the Household Waste Recycling Centres or put in
the refuse bin.
Metal lids: Jar lids - put in blue
top recycling bin. Bottle lids (for example beer bottles,
metal screw caps) - put in refuse bin. They are too small for the
recycling processing machinery, which screens them out.
Nappies: Put disposable nappies (bagged) in household refuse
bin. The Fareham & Gosport Real Nappy Network offers advice on real nappies. For companies offering laundering services for reusable
nappies, please visit www.yell.com (this is an external hyperlink). For more information on the
benefits of reusable nappies, please visit the Women's
Environmental Network (this is an external hyperlink).
Newspapers: Put in blue top
recycling bin.
Oil: Cooking Oil: Small amounts of used cooking oil from a household can go in the household refuse bin. Please put the oil in a sealed container such as a glass jar or plastic bottle with a lid, or use rags to soak it up and put them in a plastic bag. Solidified cooking fat can also go in the refuse bin, sealed in a plastic bag. Traders and commercial premises must make arrangements to dispose of used cooking oil through a waste disposal company.
Oil: Engine Oil: This is classed as hazardous waste, and must be taken to a Household Waste Recycling Centre which accepts hazardous waste. Further advice on disposing of hazardous household waste is available.
Paint tins: When empty, put in refuse bin, but tins must be empty. No liquid is acceptable in the refuse lorry because it will spill out along the road. Paint tins cannot be recycled, even metal ones. Paint tins, even if completely empty, are not suitable to be put through the Materials Recovery Facility sorting process, and so should not be put into the household recycling bin. They cannot be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centre; empty steel paint tins are not permitted in the metal container; (even if 'completely' empty). This is because any residues in the tin are likely to be hazardous waste as metal paint tins are normally used for solvent based paints. Any remaining liquid paint which is solvent-based can be taken to a Household Waste Recycling Centre which accepts hazardous waste.
Paper: Put in blue top
recycling bin.
Paper (shredded): See 'Shredded paper'.
Peelings (uncooked): Put in home
composter, or in household refuse bin.
Performance: How much waste are
we recycling?
Pet waste: Put in household refuse bin. Bedding from vegetarian
animals (Guinea pigs, rabbits etc) can go in a home composter. Cat and dog faeces
must go in household refuse bin, not a home composter.
Pillow cases: See Household Textiles.
Pillows: Cannot be put in textile banks;
dispose of in refuse bin if they are beyond reuse through a
Charity Shop.
Plastic bottles: Put in blue
top recycling bin (please rinse and remove lids).
Plastic pots, for example yogurt pots, margarine, ice cream tubs: Cannot be recycled; put in household refuse bin.
Plastic bags: Reuse for shopping or bin liners; dispose of in
household refuse bin. Some charity shops collect them to reuse,
and some supermarkets have recycling banks in-store for them. Plastic and polythene bags and mailing wrappers can be sent for recycling to Polyprint in Norfolk (this is an external hyperlink). You have to pay postage, and ensure that no biodegradable bags are included because they cannot be recycled. Please check the company's web site for full details.
Problem? If you have a problem with rubbish or recycling, please contact us and we will try
to help.
Printer cartridges: For companies offering a printer cartridge
refilling or recycling service, please visit www.yell.com.(this is an external hyperlink). Waste & Recycling Officers have envelopes available to post cartridges for recycling for charity; please contact us if you would like one. For Epson cartridges, please visit the Epson website (this is an external hyperlink).
Recycling rate: How much waste
are we recycling?
Recycling and refuse collections: Recyclables and refuse are collected on
alternate weeks.
Refuse: Put in household refuse bin. Any waste beside the bin
will not be collected. Excess can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centres.
Sheets: See Household Textiles.
Shoes: Put in Textile Bank or take to a charity shop.
Shredded paper: Cannot be recycled in blue top bins because it
clogs up the machinery at the sorting plant. Put in refuse bin, or it can be composted
in a home composter; mix well with wetter material such as grass
clippings. It can also be put in a paper bank, these are emptied and the paper taken straight to the mill so shredded material will not be lost. More information on shredded paper is available (this is an external hyperlink).
Sleeping bags: Cannot be put in textile banks;
dispose of in refuse bin if they are beyond reuse through a
Charity Shop.
Tablecloths, cloth napkins etc: See Household Textiles.
Tetrapaks: Cannot be recycled; put in household refuse bin.
Textiles: See Household Textiles or Clothes.
Tins: Put in blue top
recycling bin (please rinse and remove lids).Large metal sweet or biscuit tins can go in the blue top recycling bin, but no larger metal items. There is a physical size limit because large items will not fit under the magnet which runs over the top of the conveyor belt at the sorting plant. Any tins or cans up to the size of a large tin are acceptable, except paint tins. Paint tins are not recyclable - see the "paint tins" entry in this A-Z.
Tyres: The Household Waste Recycling Centres
no longer accept tyres.
You are advised to contact your local garage or car breaker. Most tyre fitters will take your old tyres if you have bought new ones from them. If you have a lot, please
visit www.yell.com
(this is an external hyperlink) for details of tyre dealers, who may take them for disposal, but
will charge.
Vegetable waste: Uncooked: Put in home
composter, or in household refuse bin. Cooked: Put in
household refuse bin.
Vehicles: Please visit www.yell.com (this is an external hyperlink) for details of car and
commercial vehicle dismantlers.
Videos, CDs, DVDs: Take to charity shop or put in book banks.
Waste collection: Recyclables and refuse are collected on alternate weeks.
Water Filters: See Brita entry.
Waxed cartons, for example fruit juice, milk, fabric wash cartons: Cannot be recycled; put in household refuse bin.
Wrapping paper: Cannot be recycled, it is often not paper but plastic based. Put in household refuse bin.
Xmas trees: Take to the Household Waste Recycling Centres. Artificial ones can of course be reused.
Yellow pages: Can be recycled through paper banks, but not in blue top
recycling bin. A different paper merchant collects from the banks
and they can recycle the Yellow Pages. You can avoid having a paper copy at all by using yell.com (this is an external hyperlink). To cancel delivery of future directories to your address, call the Directory Team on 0800 671 444.
Yogurt pots: Cannot be recycled; put in household refuse bin.
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