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