Important information You can now recycle your paper-based drinks and liquid food cartons, such as those made by Tetra Pak, at various points within Spelthorne.  Carton collection banks can be found at five sites in the Borough; shown below. Each year, UK beverage carton manufacturers produce 55,000 tonnes of paper-based cartons for milk, juice, sauces and other liquid food/drinks.  This equates to around 2.3kg of cartons per household which could be recycled instead of thrown in the rubbish bin.   Please wash and squash your cartons before you recycle them.

The recycle more (external website) website allows you to search using your postcode to find your nearest recycling banks.  The results are displayed on a map of the area.

Please select your area from the list below:- Ashford Ashford Common Laleham Shepperton Staines Stanwell Stanwell Moor Sunbury Lower Sunbury

Ashford
Church Road (Royal Hart)
Tesco store, Ashford Hospital
Woodlands Parade
Woodthorpe Road
White House Depot, Kingston Road
Ashford Common
Staines Road West
Laleham
Shepperton Road by Recreation Ground
Worple Road / Staines Road
Laleham Park, Riverside
Shepperton
Charlton Lane site Also available are disposal facilities for oil, cardboard, scrap metal, asbestos and car batteries.
Shepperton High Street
Shepperton Marina, Felix Lane
Halliford Recreation Ground
Staines
Edinburgh Drive
Elmsleigh Surface Car Park
Knowle Green Leisure Centre
Riverside Car Park
Lammas Recreation Ground
Stanwell
Clare Road
Village Park
Stanwell Moor
Horton Road
Sunbury
Nursery Road
Tesco store, Staines Road West
The Parade
Lower Sunbury
The Avenue Car Park
Sunbury Park, Green Street

All about the banks.

		Paper Our banks accept newspapers, magazines, junk mail, office paper, catalogues, telephone directories and yellow pages. They cannot accept envelopes or cardboard. All our paper is collected by AbitibiBowater Recycling Europe and is transported to their 100% recycled fibre mill at Ellesmere Port where it is turned into newsprint.
Glass Spelthorne collects three colours of glass (green, brown and clear) in separate banks. The collected glass is crushed into cullet before it is taken to a glass manufacturer to make new bottles and jars. Glass can be recycled over and over again without any loss of quality which means we can save natural resources by putting all glass bottles into the banks.
		Cans Our banks will take aluminium and steel cans but cannot take aerosols. They should be washed and squashed before you put them into the bank so that they do not take up so much space. Once collected they are baled and sent for reprocessing. Organisations or schools can get money by saving aluminium cans, which are valuable. For more information please contact Alcan - Aluminium Can Recycling at www.cashforcans.co.uk
Shoes We take any paired shoes in reasonable condition. The European Recycling Company Ltd collects from Spelthorne's shoe banks. Around 90% of the shoes are shipped to developing countries. On arrival they are cleaned prior to redistribution. This gives valued employment to local people. The remaining 10% are processed to extract raw material, which is mostly different types of plastic.
		Textiles The banks accept all clothing, paired shoes, curtains and bed linen. They should be in a clean condition and put into the banks in small carrier bags. Do not try to put full dustbin bags into the chute, as it will jam. The banks are provided on behalf of two charities: SCOPE, who support people with cerebral palsy, and TRAID who are a charity committed to protecting the environment and reducing world poverty.  Good quality clothing will be sent to developing countries. Any worn textiles are sold for reprocessing into cleaning cloths or insulation material and the payments used to fund the charities' other activities.
Cartons Spelthorne Borough Council is working with Tetra Pak and the carton industry body ACE UK (Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment) to establish carton collection points at key recycling points – to collect paper-based cartons only - for residents to take their empty cartons to be recycled. When collected, the cartons are taken away to be baled and transported to a recycling mill. where they are recycled into a number of different products, ranging from plasterboard liner to high-strength paper bags and envelopes. For more information, click here to visit www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk.