Recycling and waste

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Your household produces over a tonne of waste each year. This waste is currently dumped in landfill sites where it can cause considerable damage to the environment. To help reduce damaging effects of landfill, it is important that we all take action now to reduce, re-use or recycle our rubbish. To find out information on the following recycling and waste services, use the menu on the right hand side of the page:

• Household waste and recycling centres
  Find your nearest household waste and recycling centre, what you can dispose of, and details of the opening and closing times.
• Garden waste
  Renfrewshire residents can now recycle garden waste in brown wheelie bins.
• Kerbside boxes
  Blue and green recycling boxes are available to let you recycle from home
• Mini recycling points
  Renfrewshire Council are setting up a network of local mini-recycling centres.
• Recycling facilities
  Facilities throughout Renfrewshire.
• Refuse collection
  Weekly collection services for domestic and commercial waste.
• Special uplifts
  Who to contact if you wish to have a large bulky item of waste removed, and what it will cost.
• Tenement flats recycling
  Residents of all tenement properties in Renfrewshire can recycle using blue recycling bins.
• Trade waste
  Services available to businesses in Renfrewshire.
• Waste prevention
  Ways to reduce the amount of rubbish you produce.
• Waste reduction
  Information on initiatives to improve recycling and composting in Renfrewshire.

You can contact us using the details below:

• email am-serv.es@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• phone: 0141 889 7995
• fax us on: 0141 848 5053
• call at our reception desk or write to us at
  Renfrewshire Council
  Environmental Services
  Operations Group
  Amenity Services
  52 Underwood Road,
  Paisley
  PA3 1TL