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End of year Be responsible

Make sure you manage your
As students leave Oxford each waste responsibly. If you
year, bags of rubbish are left regularly:
behind. 쎲 Put out lots of excess waste
Please recycle and reuse as much 쎲 Put the wrong things in the
as you can. wrong bins
쎲 Items can be donated to one 쎲 Leave your bins out on the
of the many charity shops in pavement
Oxford. You could be served with a
fixed penalty notice.
쎲 Textiles and clothes can be
recycled in one of the many
recycling banks around the
city. Look out for them in
supermarket car parks.
쎲 Large items can be taken to
Redbridge Recycling Centre,
Old Abingdon Road, OX1 4XG.
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Your collection day is Your blue bin Your food recycling Your green bin
You can use your
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collected fortnightly
You have a small caddy for the Anything placed in the green bin
kitchen and a larger caddy to put will be disposed of.
쎲 A green wheeled bin out for collection every week
for anything that Only things that can't be used
can’t be recycled or again or recycled should go into
reused collected the green bin.
fortnightly Your green wheeled bin will be
YES PLEASE collected on the alternate week to
your blue recycling bin.
쎲 A food recycling bin
and food caddies Please s
item
collected weekly place and
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If you do not have these bins then not in gs
b in ba You can line your caddy with
please contact your landlord. a few sheets of newspaper or
쎲 Excess recycling can be placed at use compostable starchliners,
Need a reminder? the side of your recycling bin in
clear sacks or a cardboard box.
available from supermarkets.

To get free email or text reminders, 쎲 Please place items in the blue bin
email or text your collection day, NO THANKS Don’t leave rubbish
loose
e.g. Monday, to: 8 packaging of any sort outside next to the bin.
쎲 Please do not use black bin bags
Blue zone blue@oxford.gov.uk 8 plastic bags
8 oil and liquid fat
07786 200848 쎲 Please rinse and squash recycling Excess waste will not
be collected.
8 liquids
Red zone red@oxford.gov.uk 쎲 You can put lids back onto bottles
07786 200424

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