Bath & North East Somerset Council can offer the following recycling services for schools. By recycling in school, you can cut your waste disposal bills, help protect the environment and promote recycling to the pupils.
Getting started
We offer a variety of weekly collections to help schools recycle. We charge for recycling collections but please note that it is much cheaper to recycle than send your waste to landfill. You can find details of current recycling and waste collection charges below.
- Green box collection
This is best suited to small schools (usually small primary schools) that don't produce large amounts of material.
- Paper collection
This collection service is best suited to schools that produce a large amount of paper. Paper can be collected in clear sacks or loose in 240 wheelie bins.
- Cardboard collection
Small amounts can be collected packed flat in one box with a pre paid sticker, or larger amounts stored loose in 660 or 1100 litre wheeled bins.
- Mini Recycling Centres
These are best suited to large schools (usually secondary schools) that produce a large amount of material and have external space to store the wheeled bins.
When looking to set up recycling in school, it is best to decide which members of staff are going to be responsible for the scheme and look for opportunities to involve the children.
See Contacts below for who to speak to about setting up or developing your school recycling collection.
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Recycling - collection choices and costs
The materials we collect from you for recycling are recycled into new products saving resources and energy and reducing the amount of waste we send to landfill.
Please note that you can buy reusable sacks to help store your paper in school before transferring it to external containers. Please contact us for current costs for these.
Recycling and waste collection costs below are from 1 April 2011.
| PAPER recycling |
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost (exc VAT) |
| 1. |
Clear plastic sacks (minimum order 20). |
£1.40 each |
|
| 2. |
240 litre wheelie bins. Put paper loose into these bins.
|
£3.61 per collection |
|
|
CARDBOARD recycling
|
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost (exc VAT) |
| 1. |
Pre-paid cardboard collection stickers for loose collections (loose cardboard can be packed flat into one easy to handle cardboard box or packed into manageable bundles and tied with string). One pre-paid sticker will then need to be attached to each separate large box/bundle for collection. |
£1.40 per sticker |
| 2. |
660 litre wheeled bin (for storage and collection) |
£5.05 per collection |
| 3. |
1100 litre wheeled bin (for storage and collection) |
£5.77 per collection |
| Green box recycling |
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost |
|
For paper and all the other materials collected in the household green box collection service i.e. paper, glass bottles and jars, plastic packaging, aluminium foil, food and drinks cans, Yellow Pages, spectacles, clothes and shoes etc. (Please note we can't collect batteries from schools). |
Green box |
£1.40 per box/per lift |
| Mini recycling centre |
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost |
|
Separate bins for
1. Paper,
2. Plastic packaging and food & drinks cans,
3. Glass bottles & jars. |
Set of six 240 litre wheeled bins (available in any combination to suit your school's requirements). |
£557 per mini recycling centre per year. |
Waste - collection choices and costs
There are three options on offer for the storage and weekly collection of waste from your school.
One container will be provided free of charge but you will need to buy more if you need them. Please contact us if you need prices for additional bins.
You can order lilac waste sacks from Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41
councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk
| Collection container |
Cost (exc VAT) |
Width (mm) |
Depth (mm) |
Height (mm) |
| Lilac sacks |
£2.40 per sack (orders under 100)
£2.35 per sack (orders over 100) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| 660 litre wheeled bin |
£8.23 per collection |
1265 |
740 |
1320 |
| 1100 litre wheeled bin |
£9.40 per collection |
1270 |
1000 |
1380 |
Materials we collect
Paper
We can collect paper from all schools. The main types of paper we collect are white office paper and envelopes. We can also collect newspapers, magazines and junk mail. Don't worry about taking staples out of doucments or windows out of envelopes - they will come out in the recycling process.
We are unable to take paper such as sugar paper, tissue paper and brown paper (but brown paper can be collected with your cardboard).
We usually encourage children to just recycle white office quality paper in the classrooms as this is easier for them to understand and reduces the risk of contaminating the paper with types that we don't accept.
Cans and plastic packaging
We are able to offer some schools recycling facilities for cans and plastic packaging, either through the green box scheme or through the Mini Recycling Centres. The plastic packaging we can now collect includes plastic tubs, trays, pots and bottles. These can be collected mixed with cans, as we will use a magnet to separate the cans from the plastic.
Cardboard
We can collect cardboard and brown paper for recycling from schools in either a 660 litre or 1100 litre wheeled bin. For small amounts, we are able to collect loose cardboard packed flat into one easy to handle cardboard box, but this must have a pre-paid sticker.
Green box recycling
For schools using the green box scheme, you can put in any of the materials that you would normally put in your green recycling box at home in Bath and North East Somerset (except batteries). For more information, please see Green Box Recycling.
Educational support
We can provide assemblies, activities and promotional materials to help the children learn more about recycling. Assemblies are always provided when setting up a new scheme to help inform the staff and children about the new scheme. They can also be provided at other times to reinforce or reboost an existing scheme. Please see Contacts below if you would like some additional support.
Collection Issues
If you are having problems with your collections or are not clear what to do next, we can help you. Common problems that we can help with include:
- Missed collections
- Checking your collection day
- Ordering new boxes and bags
- Refreshing a flagging scheme
- End of term clear outs
- Holiday collections
- Confusion about the service
Please see Contacts below for who to contact.
Free compost bins
We can provide schools with free compost bins and a package of support to help you make the most out of composting at school. We can provide all of the following:
- Free compost bins
- Ongoing support and visits to help guide you through the composting process from starting up to using your compost
- Loan of display compost bin
- Composting assembly - particularly for new schools
- Compost competition - follow up to the assembly, particularly for new schools
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Contacts
For general enquiries or to log a missed collection please contact Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41 or email councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk
To start recycling or composting, or for educational support please contact Lorinda Trebaczyk on 01225 394157 or email lorinda_trebaczyk@bathnes.gov.uk