Recycling collections from your home

Stockton Council operates a collection service of recyclable household waste from your home every two weeks.

Recycling collection arrangements

We collect recycling from domestic properties across the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees on a designated day (from Tuesday through to Friday) every two weeks. This system means there are no changes to recycling collection arrangements following Bank Holiday Mondays. (Your collection day will be the same as your waste collection day).

Please ensure that you have your blue bag, blue box and white hessian sack are out at the kerbside before 7am on the morning of collection, and remove them as soon as you can once they have been emptied.

Easter holiday waste and recycling collections

There are no changes to waste and recycling collections over the Easter holiday.

Collection days have changed for some properties

We changed the day that we collect waste and recycling from some properties. We have written to each home that is affected by the change. The changes will start from 2 April 2013.

Find out when we will collect recycling from your home.

Blue bag for paper recycling scheme

Domestic properties are supplied with a blue bag for the storage of paper products for recycling.

We accept:

Paper
Newspapers
Magazines
Catalogues
Telephone directories
Junk mail
Envelopes

Blue box for tins, cans, glass and batteries recycling scheme

Domestic properties are supplied with a blue box for the storage of tins, cans, glass and batteries for recycling.

We accept:

Tins
Cans
Glass (clear, green and brown)
Batteries (within their own bag)

White hessian sack for plastic and cardboard recycling scheme

Domestic properties are supplied with a white, hessian sack for the collection of plastic and cardboard for recycling.

We accept the following plastics:

Any plastic bottles (such as empty milk and pop bottles, cooking oil, washing up, laundry liquids, shampoo, toiletry and baby care bottles)
Clean yoghurt pots, margarine and butter tubs
Liquid food and drink cartons (Such as those made by Tetra-Pak)
Carrier bags
Plastic film or wrapping / bubblewrap
Pot noodle pots
Plant pots

We do not accept the following plastics:

Hard, rigid plastic (such as children's toys or pen casings)
Any plastic contaminated with food waste
Black plastic bags
Plastic microwave meal trays
Plastic meat trays
Plastic toothpaste tubes

We accept the following cardboard:

Cereal boxes
Greetings cards
Any brown cardboard (such as toilet/kitchen roll tubes
General cardboard packaging (such as shoe boxes)
Corrugated packaging (such as Pringle Tubes, cardboard egg boxes and clean frozen food boxes)

We DO NOT accept the following cardboard:

Pizza boxes
Any cardboard contaminated by food
Any polystyrene (such as polystyrene egg boxes)

Help putting your waste and recycling out for collection

We offer an assisted collection service for those customers who are unable to move their green, wheeled bin to the collection point and where there are no other able bodied persons available to assist. If you would like to be considered for this service please contact us.