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Waste & Recycling
Lewes District Council
Southover House
Southover Road
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 1AB
Tel: 01273 484999
customer.services
@lewes.gov.uk
Minicom 01273 484488
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Box-it! Kerbside Recycling
We operate a recycling scheme called Box It!. This provides households with containers and bags to separate waste to be recycled.
How the scheme works, what is able to be recycled and where it operates is detailed below.
The Box It! recycling scheme makes recycling easier. We provide three containers that sort different types of waste.
Small Black Bin
ACCEPTED
- Newspapers
- Junk mail
- Magazines
- Catalogues
- Letters
- Brochures
NOT ACCEPTED
- Cardboard including thin card
- Yellow pages
- Thomson Local Directory
- Plastic coated papers
- Padded Envelopes
- Thick brown envelopes
- Packaging
- Plastic bag wrappers
Big Black Bin
ACCEPTED
- Food and drinks cans
- Plastic bottles, detergent bottles eg shampoo, shower gels, fizzy drinks bottles, water, milk and sauce bottles
- Clean aluminium foil placed in a bag
*Please remove bottle lids and throw away with normal refuse. Do not worry about labels.
NOT ACCEPTED
- Plastic food trays & dishes
- Plastic bags
- Margarine tubs
- Yoghurt pots
- Packaging
- Wrappers, cling film
- Polystyrene & packing
- Flower pots
- Toys and any other plastic bits & bobs
- Metal items other than
Bag
ACCEPTED
All Food and Drink Glass Bottles and Jars
NOT ACCEPTED
- Plate glass
- Wine & drinking glasses
- Perfume & novelty glass bottles
- Crockery
- Pyrex Glass
Collections
Collections are made from your doorstep every fortnight. Rounds are made by our own crews and in association with Furniture Now!
You can check which day your collection is made by using our online search.
When adding items, please make sure all plastic covers are removed from magazines and junk mail. Plastic bottles, cans, aluminium foil, glass bottles and jars are washed and clean.
Clean aluminium foil can be placed in a carrier bag and put in the bigger box. We can then seperate this easier on collection.
Please make sure no other plastic bags are in either box.
On collection day, put your boxes and bag together on the pavement in front of your house.
It may not always be possible to give you back the same boxes each time they are emptied because of the collection methods.
The scheme is currently running in all the urban and some rural areas of the district. We collect from the following towns and villages:
Towns
Newhaven, Peacehaven, Seaford, Telscombe Cliffs, East Saltdean and Burgess Hill (the area within Lewes District).
Villages
Barcombe Cross and Barcombe Mills (but not Barcombe), Beddingham, Bishopstone, Ditchling, Falmer, Firle, Newick, North Chailey, Northease, Norton, Piddinghoe, Plumpton, Rodmell, South Chailey, Southease, Streat, Westmeston and Wivelsfield.
Furniture Now! collects from: Lewes, Ringmer, Kingston, Glynde, Cooksbridge, Chiltington, East Chiltington, Offham, Iford, Swanborough, Southerham, Barcombe (not Barcombe Cross or Barcombe Mills), Hamsey, and Upper Wellingham.
Joining The Scheme
If you wish to join the scheme please contact our Customer Services department.
