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Organic Food and Garden Waste and Mixed Recycling (Blue Bin)

Organic Food and Garden Waste / Mixed Recycling (Blue Bin) Collection Schedule for Lewis and Harris

Overview

Organic Food / Garden Waste (grey bin with yellow sticker) and Mixed Recycling (blue bin)

Collected every 3 weeks

Lewis and Harris Collection Schedule

Monday Collections

New Harris, Mackenzie Park, Sinclair Avenue, Back, Marybank, Bernera, Breasclete to Garynahine, Cearns, Stewart Drive 

Tuesday Collections

Galson, Shawbost, Carloway, Tolsta Chaolais, Newmarket, Leverburgh, Uig, Lochganvich, Achmore, Scalpay, Harris

Wednesday Collections

South Lochs, Outer Point, Bayble, Ness, Tong, Coll, Harris Bays, Manor 

Thursday Collections

Barvas, Brue, Arnol, Bragar, Water Board Houses, North Tolsta, Gress, Point, Melbost, Parkend, Goathill

Friday Collections

Plasterfield, Balallan, North Lochs

 

Bin Contents

Your blue bin is for mixed recycling. 

It can contain: 

  • Plastic bottles & trays
  • Thin cardboard (e.g. cereal boxes)  
  • Shampoo & detergent bottles
  • Envelopes & junk mail
  • Margarine tubs & yoghurt pots
  • Clean paper & magazines
  • Food tins & drinks cans
  • Greeting cards & brochures
  • Aerosols

It cannot contain:

  • Glass
  • Scrap metal or car parts
  • Food & flowers
  • Textiles
  • Polystyrene
  • Plastic carrier bags
  • Thick cardboard
  • Cling film & plastic wrappers
  • Shredded paper
  • Dirty or soiled paper & tissues
Overview of what can and cannot be in mixed recycling bin

 

Instructions to Collect your recycling, then flatten your cardboard, rinse your metals, and rinse and squash your plastics and cartons. Place your recycling into the blue bin. Place your bin at the kerbside on your collection day and we will collect it every three weeks. Your recycled materials are then used to create all sorts of items such as packaging, bags, car components, furniture, building materials and even aeroplane parts!

Your grey bin with the yellow sticker is for all types of food waste – cooked, uncooked and garden waste.

It can contain:

  • Dairy and eggshells
  • Fish, meat and bones
  • Fruit and vegetables (and peelings)
  • Bread and cakes
  • Rice, pasta and pizza
  • Tea bags and coffee grounds
  • Pet foods
  • Unpackaged out of date food
  • Cardboard and paper contaminated with food 
  • Thick cardboard
  • Shredded paper
  • Grass and hedge cuttings
  • Flowers

It cannot contain:

  • Thin cardboard (e.g. cereal boxes)
  • Soil & stones
  • Clean paper
  • Ashes
  • Plastics & plastic bags
  • Glass
  • Textiles
  • Metal
List of what can and cannot be in Food and Garden Waste Bin and instructions on Keeping your caddy clean • You can empty your kitchen caddy as often as needed. • Avoid spillages by only filling the liner 3/4 full before tying. • Give your caddy a quick clean after emptying it and then replace the liner.

 

Put all cooked and uncooked food waste into your kitchen caddy which should be lined with a compostable liner. When your food caddy is almost full, tie the liner and remove it from the kitchen caddy. Put the full liner into your organic waste bin, then place it at the kerbside on your collection day. Garden waste should be put directly into the bin and we will collect it every three weeks. Your food and garden waste is then processed using an anaerobic digester into a compost like material.