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Recycling services

The A-Z of recycling lets you know exactly what and where things can currently be recycled in Medway.

Find out your recycling collection day.

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Medway’s Twin stream recycling service, which uses the blue reusable and white reusable recycling bags, was introduced to help increase the materials collected and keep the rising costs of processing waste down.

In addition, the combined garden and food waste service, will increase the amount of organic material that can be recycled. As part of an EU project, we are carrying out a food waste collection trial in Medway, which will help increase the amount of recycled food waste. 

To find out what week these are collected in your area, you will need a new recycling calendar. You can also find out about the changes to bank holiday collections, meaning we now pick up your normal collections, even if it is during a bank holiday week.

You can also recycle more by using one of our many recycling points or three of our household waste recycling sites, where you can recycle Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).

Campaign links

Weee Free Week

WEEE Free Week

Medway is running a WEEE Free Week campaign for schools, where-by any school that wants to can 'join in, educate, recycle and win'.

 

Proud to support LFHW

Love Food Hate Waste

The Love Food Hate Waste campaign has many simple tips and ideas tips on how to save up to £50 per month by reducing food and drink waste. You can also find useful information behind the real meaning of “use-by” and “sell-by” dates.

 

Compost bin

Home composting

Home composting is an easy way of getting value back from garden and fruit and vegetable peelings in your own garden. By offering a range of discounted compost bins, it makes its easy to get started and quickly see the benefits.

 

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Reusable nappies

Things have changed, with our £30 discount scheme for reusable nappies, using this money saving environmentally friendly system has never been easier.

 

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Reuse

Reusing things no longer wanted is the ultimate way to help others and the environment.

 

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Want to see some videos?

See how all the recyclables get separated from each other, and what happens to them at a Materials Recycling Facility.

See what happens to Medway's garden and food waste and how it is composted at Countrystyle.

Do you know where WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) goes to and how it gets processed? Take a look at this local world leading business called SWEEEP in Sittingbourne.

For more information contact Customer First by telephone: 01634 333333 or by email: customer.first@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Customer First, Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR

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