Stockport residents can now recycle even more materials at over a hundred different recycling sites across the borough.

Stockport Council has enhanced recycling facilities at supermarkets and local shops to make recycling more materials even easier for residents. Cardboard, newspapers and magazines, drinks cartons, phone books, plastic bottles, glass, cans, aerosols and aluminium foil can now all be recycled at these recycling sites.

The improvements have been made to bring the recycling sites into line with the Council’s household recycling service. Residents can now recycle the same materials at home or when they do their weekly shop making recycling even more convenient. Some residents may notice that the large red skips for recycling plastic bottles have also been removed and now plastic bottles can be recycled in the same containers as glass, cans, aerosols and aluminium foil.

It’s important that residents remember that we cannot take any other types of plastic. Plastic bottles are made from a high-grade plastic and are more easily recycled into new products. Items such as yoghurt pots, carrier bags and plastic food trays are made from lower grade plastic and if they are put into the recycling containers, this may mean that all the recycling is rejected at the factory and could end up in landfill.

For more information about recycling contact the Council’s Environmental Services team on 0161 217 611 or visit www.stockport.gov.uk/waste.