Green Bin – Every Week
Food Waste: All cooked and uncooked food waste including: bread, cakes, biscuits and pastries; dairy products; coffee grounds and teabags; fruit and vegetables; meat and fish (including bones); garden waste: branches; cuttings; dead flowers; grass and leaves; house plants; twigs; weeds; vegetarian pet hutch waste; Shredded paper
Black Bin – Fortnightly: Domestic household rubbish (no side waste)
Blue Box – Fortnightly: Glass bottles and jars. No tops or lids – these go in the black bin
Clear Sacks – Fortnightly : Paper, shredded paper; card, tins, cans, plastic bottles, plastic tubs and pots, food trays; plastic bags; aerosols; clean foil and foil containers, food and drink cartons (tetra-paks).
Polystyrene: Leave by the black wheelie bin
Waste Electrical Equipment: Small electrical items – tie up in plastic carrier leave on top of green bin
Household Batteries: Batteries in a separate, sealable, tied up plastic bag
Textiles: clothes and shoes in a tied up carrier bag on top of green bin
Clear sacks available from:
Sheering Newsagent & Post Office
The Shed Coffee House, The Maltings. Station Road, Lower Sheering, CM21 9JX
Julie & John Harrington at 8, The Four Acres keep sacks in case Lower Sheering villagers run out
For more information contact: 01992 564608 – www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk