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Kerbside Recycling (Box-It!)
The Box It! recycling scheme makes recycling easier by collecting from your doorstep. Each household joining the Box It! scheme is given two black plastic boxes - one large box for plastic bottles, cans and aluminium foil, and one smaller box for paper. You are also given a sturdy bag for glass bottles and jars. We use electric vehicles to collect from properties at their kerbside every fortnight.
We collect paper, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars (not window glass or heat resistant glass for cooking), cans, clean aluminium foil, textiles, clothes, old rag, boots and shoes, leather items, belts, DVDs, CDs and video tapes, bric-a-brac and small items of scrap metal (e.g. old pans, cutlery etc.). Kerbside Recycling is provided in association with Furniture Now!
Online Services
Contact Us
Tel: 01273 484999
, Minicom: 01273 484488,
Email: customer.services@lewes.gov.uk
You can visit us at:
Community Recycling Centre, North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE
Maps: Maps of the Lewes District
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How do I join?
The scheme is currently running in all the urban and some rural areas of the District. If you wish to join the scheme please contact customer.services@lewes.gov.uk or ring 01273 484999. Alternatively you can download the "How to join BOX IT!" mail-form which is at the bottom of this page.
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.
What do I do?
- Remove all plastic covers from magazines and junk mail etc.
- Wash all plastic bottles, cans, aluminium foil, glass bottles and jars.
- Place clean aluminium foil in a carrier bag and put in the bigger box.
- Make sure there are no plastic bags in either box (except for the one containing clean aluminium foil).
To put in the bigger box:
- Food and drinks cans
- Plastic bottles, detergent bottles e.g. shampoo, shower gels, fizzy drinks bottles, water, milk and sauce bottles
- Clean aluminium foil placed in a bag
To put in the smaller box:
- Newspapers
- Junk mail
- Magazines
- Catalogues
- Letters
- Brochures
To put in the bag:
- All food and drink glass bottles and jars
Do NOT include: plastic food trays, margarine tubs, yoghurt pots, crisp packets and cardboard.
Do NOT include: broken glass, window/flat glass, wine and drinking glasses, perfume and novelty glass bottles, crockery and Pyrex glass.
Please put your boxes and bag together on the pavement in front of your house on collection day.
Textiles, clothes & bric-a-brac
We also collect textiles, clothes & bric-a-brac - click here for more information Textiles, clothes & bric-a-brac.
Relevant Documents
You can download the Glass Recycling leaflet from this link
 Glass Recycling Collections (231.14kb, WRS_Glass.pdf)
To download the How to join BOX IT leaflet click on this link
How to use the BOX IT! service (293.00kb, WRS_Box_it_Leaflet.pdf)
To download the form to join the BOX IT scheme click here
How to join BOX IT! (40.06kb, WRS_Box_it_Newhaven_mailer.pdf)
Useful Links
Furniture Now, Unit 2 Phoenix Works, North Street, Lewes, East Sussex Tel: 01273 479666. Use the following external link to their website to find out more.
www.furniturenow.org.uk/
The external link below goes to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website. Their mission is to enable everyone to live within our environmental means, by tackling climate change internationally and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
www.defra.gov.uk/
Recycle Now has information on how to start recycling, what more you can do, where to recycle, news, facts, fun stuff and more via the external link below to their website
www.recyclenow.com/
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