brown bin – Pencaitland and District Community Council

You may have spotted the pamphlets that came through front doors recently with details on what and when you can recycle.

Extra or replacement box covers are also available at <a href="https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/directory/23/council_area_office_contact_details">Local Area Offices</a> or by contacting Waste Services. — Extra or replacement box covers are also available at Local Area Offices or by contacting Waste Services.

We’ve also added all the dates to the community calendar for both brown and recycling bin collections along with a link to the current timetable which you can download and print.

Brown bins are collected every other Friday for garden waste. You can find loads of useful information on recycling on the ELC website.

East Lothian is already recycling almost 44 percent of household waste. By 2020 60 percent of all the waste collected from households should be recycled, composted or prepared for reuse. To help achieve this Local Authorities are being asked to introduce a collection service for food waste which will be introduced as a new service in the future.

Meantime here’s a quick refresher on what you can put in the green and blue recycling boxes on alternate Fridays…

Green box	Blue box
glass bottles and jars	paper (unwanted mail)
food and drink cans	cardboard
plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays, tops & straws	envelopes (including windowed envelopes)
empty aerosol cans & clean aluminium foil	telephone directories and Yellow Pages
	magazines, brochures and leaflets
	wrapping paper

Recycling Collection Points

The Council also operates around 80 recycling points across East Lothian. There is one in the car park of the Winton Arms in Pencaitland. Additionally, for larger items you can access one of ELC’s four recycling centres.

The nearest one is the Macmerry Recycling Centre in Macmerry Industrial Estate. For location details see this map.

View East Lothian Recycling Centres in a larger map