Our ‘Hard to Recycle’ locations around Buxton are:
- Sainsbury's
- Iceland
- Morrisons
- ROFA office on Victoria Park Road
- Buxton Methodist Church on the Market Place
- Bath Road Community Centre
- Some schools
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Please only put items in our bins that comply with the list of things we can recycle through the Terrracycle schemes (see list below).
Please do not leave bags etc on or beside our bins, it could be a trip hazard and result in us not being able to have the bins in the locations.
Periodically we accumulate enough credit with Terracycle to allow us do make a donation to a local charity. We are a CIC so can’t keep the money. So far donations have included contributions to; Buxton Methodist Church Raise the Roof Appeal, Buxton Junior School, Zink and Serpentine Community Garden.
We are building up a list of all the places in Buxton at which you can recycle different items. The latest list is attached below.
Crisp Snacks
Crisps, popcorn, nuts & pretzels packets, crisp substitutes e.g. lentil curls, tortillas, quavers, prawn crackers. Multi-pack bags of above.
Where: Transition Buxton hard to recycle bins, Soft plastics bins (Morrison’s, Aldi or Waitrose).
Biscuits & Confectionery
Sweet and savoury biscuits, crackers, cake, cereal bars, rice cakes, Twiglets, mini cheddars, Ryvita types, snack wrappers, confectionery wrappers
No: paper based wrappers
Where: Transition Buxton hard to recycle bins, Soft plastics bins at Morrisons, Aldi or Waitrose
Oral products
Toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, electric toothbrush heads and covers, flossing sticks and interdental brushes, floss containers.
Where: Please take these items to Boots if you are able to. Need to register first.
Soft plastics
Crisp packets; confectionery wrappers; fruit, vegetable and salad bags; multipack film wrap; toilet roll and kitchen roll wrapping.
Where: Transition Buxton hard to recycle bins, Soft plastic bin at Morrisons, Aldi or Waitrose.
Pringles
Pringles tubes (with paper base), lids.
No: seal goes in black bin.
Where: Brown bin at home.
Stationery items
Pens, empty glue sticks, correction suppliers, pencil sharpeners, Staplers and hole punchers, clips and clamps, file pockets and binders, plastic file dividers and folders.
No: Items made of wood (wooden pencils), laminated paper – release liner from labels, electronic waste, hazardous waste.
Where: Transition Buxton Hard to Recycle bins.
Cheese packaging
Flexible plastic cheese packaging, nets and pouches which is labelled ‘recycle with bags at store’.
No: plastic cheese tubes and trays, squeezy cheese tubes.
Where: Soft plastics bin at Morrisons, Aldi or Waitrose.
Disposable and Durable gloves
Any brand of disposable gloves made from nitrile, vinyl and latex purchased for use at home. Marigold durable gloves.
No: other brands of durable gloves. No gloves which have been used with harsh chemical or unhygienic substances.
Where: Transition Buxton Hard to Recycle bins.
Bread packaging
All brands of plastic bread bags.
No: combined paper and film window bags.
Where: Transition Buxton Hard to Recycle bins, Soft plastics bins at Morrisons, Aldi or Waitrose.
Tea and Coffee packaging
All brands of flexible packaging for coffee (beans or ground), loose leaf tea packs and bulk bags of tea bags.
No: valves (these should be peeled off or cut out).
Where: Transition Buxton Hard to Recycle bins, Soft plastics bins at Morrisons, Aldi or Waitrose.
Coffee pods
Waterswallows Household Waste and Recycling Centre, or see podback.org.
Plastic packaging
Flexible packaging for laundry washing capsules and pods. Baby and pet food and microwaveable food pouches; Carrier Bags; Clothing bags; Bubble wrap.
No: compostable or biodegradable bags, Rigid plastic trays (brown bin).
Where: Soft plastics bin at Morrisons, Aldi or Waitrose
Glass/Paper and Cardboard/Plastic/Metal
Bottles, tubs and trays/Food tins, drink cans, foil/Aerosols/Tetrapaks/Pringles lids and paper tubes.
Where: Brown bin at home.
Garden plant material and food waste
Where: Plant material in Green-lidded bin at home, food waste in food waste caddy.
Medicine Blister packs
Any empty drug blister pack.
Where: bin located at Superdrug, Springs shopping centre. Also at Boots (need to register first).
Batteries
All kinds of batteries.
Where: any shop selling batteries including supermarkets.
Brita Water Softener Cartridges
Any type of Brita cartridge.
Where: bin located in Argos, Spring Gardens.
Printer cartridges
All makes of PC printer cartridges.
Where: bin located in Rymans, Springs shopping centre.
Toothpaste tubes and other beauty, health and wellness product packaging
Where: Boots, Spring Gardens.
Note – need to register first, see:
Small Electrical appliances
Where: if working try a charity shop such as Blythe house. If not, take to B&Q, Waterswallows or book a home collection from HPBC.
Kinder packaging
Ferrero Rocher & Ferrero Collection aluminium wrappers, transparent box & gold plastic tray; Ferrero Rocher ice cream plastic packaging; Kinder aluminium foil packaging; Kinder flexible & rigid plastic packaging; Kinder chocolate wrappers and Nutella biscuits flexible plastic pouches.
No other brands.
Where: Transition Buxton hard to recycle bins.
