Calendar

Aug
28
Thu
Food waste caddy day
Aug 28 all-day

Food waste caddy collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

Food waste items

All your raw and cooked food waste such as leftovers and spoilt food, and including:

  • meat and fish – raw and cooked including bones
  • all dairy products such as cheese and eggs
  • raw and cooked vegetables and fruit
  • bread, cakes and pastries
  • rice, pasta and beans
  • uneaten food from your plates and dishes
  • tea bags and coffee grounds
  • cooking oil, lard and fats (do not put cooking oil in plastic containers)
  • old flowers
What cannot go in your food recycling bin?
  • packaging
  • plastic bags
  • glass

These can all go in your recycling bin.

Lining your food recycling caddy

Food waste for recycling can be put into your caddy loose, wrapped in a couple of sheets of newspaper, or in caddy liners with the code EN 13432. Caddy liners are composted along with the food at our in-vessel composting plant but are removed at our anaerobic digestion plants and used to make refuse derived fuel.


For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/food-waste

Sep
4
Thu
Brown bin day
Sep 4 all-day

Brown bin collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

  • Grass
  • Leaves
  • Weeds
  • Flowers and plants
  • Hedge clippings
  • Branches (not more than 10cm thick)
  • Prunings and twigs
  • Windfall fruit
  • Hay / Straw (soiled animal bedding from non-meat eating animals only eg rabbits)
  • Vegetable waste from the garden only eg potato tops (not kitchen waste)

The following cannot be put in the brown bin:

  • Food or kitchen waste (put this in your food waste bin)
  • Cat or dog faeces
  • Vacuum dust or fire cinders
  • Soil, stones or rubble
  • Wood that has been treated or painted
  • Cardboard, Tetra packs (milk or juice cartons), or wrapping paper (these can go in your green recycling bin)
  • Plastic flower pots, trays or bags
  • Weeds that need reporting to the Environment Agency, like Japanese knotweed and ragwort.

For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/garden-waste/garden-waste-faq

Food waste caddy day
Sep 4 all-day

Food waste caddy collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

Food waste items

All your raw and cooked food waste such as leftovers and spoilt food, and including:

  • meat and fish – raw and cooked including bones
  • all dairy products such as cheese and eggs
  • raw and cooked vegetables and fruit
  • bread, cakes and pastries
  • rice, pasta and beans
  • uneaten food from your plates and dishes
  • tea bags and coffee grounds
  • cooking oil, lard and fats (do not put cooking oil in plastic containers)
  • old flowers
What cannot go in your food recycling bin?
  • packaging
  • plastic bags
  • glass

These can all go in your recycling bin.

Lining your food recycling caddy

Food waste for recycling can be put into your caddy loose, wrapped in a couple of sheets of newspaper, or in caddy liners with the code EN 13432. Caddy liners are composted along with the food at our in-vessel composting plant but are removed at our anaerobic digestion plants and used to make refuse derived fuel.


For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/food-waste

Green bin day
Sep 4 all-day

Green bin collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

All paper and cardboard, including:

  • books – only if not suitable for taking to a charity shop
    catalogues
  • phone directories (including the Yellow Pages)
  • cereal boxes
  • corrugated cardboard
  • envelopes (including envelopes with windows)
  • greeting cards
  • junk mail
  • magazines
  • newspapers
  • shredded paper (loose)
  • tissue boxes
  • toilet roll tubes
  • writing paper
  • Mixed glass bottles and jars – any colour (and bottle tops, but please separate them)

All plastic bags, bottles, pots, tubs and trays (except film):

  • plastic or carrier bags (except black bags)
  • detergent bottles
  • drinks bottles (and tops)
  • food and drink cartons (Tetra Paks)
  • food trays
  • general plastic packaging
  • ice cream tubs
  • margarine tubs
  • plastic milk cartons and bottles
  • shampoo bottles
  • yoghurt pots

Remember: When possible, please remove the tops and squash the bottle to make more space in your bin.

Metal

  • aerosols
  • clean foil
  • food tins
  • steel and aluminium food and drink cans (please wash and squash them first)
  • metal lids (bottle and jar lids)

All these can go in your bin together and should be loose (no bagged materials). It’s best if all materials are clean – this helps to keep your bin clean and reduces contamination of the recycling . If you fill your green bin you can put extra recycling out for collection next to your bin in either clear or see through sacks, carrier bags or cardboard boxes.

Batteries

Batteries can be recycled on your recycling collection day. Just pop them in a clear plastic bag (such as a sandwich bag or food bag) on top of your green recycling bin.

We can collect household batteries, such as 6v batteries, 9v batteries (transistor batteries), D, C AA, AAA and button batteries (watch batteries) as well as mobile phone batteries, laptop batteries and lithium batteries with tape across the terminals.

We cannot collect batteries with trailing wires, car batteries, or other industrial batteries but you may be able to take these to a Household Waste Recycling Centre. For further information on battery recycling and disposal facilities, please see the Oxfordshire A-Z section on batteries.


For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/recycling/what-can-i-recycle

Sep
11
Thu
Black bin day
Sep 11 all-day

Black bin collection day.

Your black bin is for non-recyclable items, which will be sent to landfill. There shouldn’t be much left after you have recycled your food waste and all the items that go in your green bin. Things that can go in your black bin include:

  • cling film
  • polystyrene
  • crisp packets
  • sanitary products
  • nappies
  • cat litter
  • VHS tapes/cassettes (however, up to 100 tapes at a time can be sent to EMS provided that you pay for the postage)

Please do not put the following in your black dustbin

  • bricks
  • rubble
  • soil
  • large items i.e. furniture
  • electrical items
  • garden waste
  • batteries
  • hot ash (can go in the black bin once cooled)

These can all be taken to the county council waste recycling centres.

Paint

If you can’t use up spare paint or give it away, the best way to dispose of it is to add sawdust, sand or soil to the tin and leave the lid off until the paint becomes solid and dry. You can then put it in your black bin.


For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/rubbish

Food waste caddy day
Sep 11 all-day

Food waste caddy collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

Food waste items

All your raw and cooked food waste such as leftovers and spoilt food, and including:

  • meat and fish – raw and cooked including bones
  • all dairy products such as cheese and eggs
  • raw and cooked vegetables and fruit
  • bread, cakes and pastries
  • rice, pasta and beans
  • uneaten food from your plates and dishes
  • tea bags and coffee grounds
  • cooking oil, lard and fats (do not put cooking oil in plastic containers)
  • old flowers
What cannot go in your food recycling bin?
  • packaging
  • plastic bags
  • glass

These can all go in your recycling bin.

Lining your food recycling caddy

Food waste for recycling can be put into your caddy loose, wrapped in a couple of sheets of newspaper, or in caddy liners with the code EN 13432. Caddy liners are composted along with the food at our in-vessel composting plant but are removed at our anaerobic digestion plants and used to make refuse derived fuel.


For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/food-waste

Sep
13
Sat
Oxford churches Ride and Stride
Sep 13 all-day

From: http://www.rideandstrideuk.org/

Ride+Stride is a sponsored bike ride or walk in which people from all over the country walk or cycle between churches, exploring and enjoying the countryside from Cornwall to Northumberland. The money they raise helps to preserve some of Britain’s 47,000 churches, chapels and meeting houses which are at risk of falling into serious disrepair.

Supported by The National Churches Trust and in partnership with County Churches Trusts nationwide, Ride+Stride crosses 34 counties and opens the doors to some of Britain’s most rare and unusual churches, chapels and meeting houses. To help raise money for these wonderful buildings you will need to be sponsored by your friends and family, and you can get sponsorship details from the local Ride+Stride organisers in your County (or from the National Churches Trust, if there is no event in your area – please click here for more information about riding and striding for the National Churches Trust).

With thousands to choose from, there is no shortage of fantastic churches, chapels and meeting houses to visit and support. You can find a church bell (in the tree) or a stone hedgehog (on the door) at St Nicholas’ Church in Barfrestone, Kent. Look for carved pigs feeding in Little Malvern Priory in Worcestershire (on a monk’s arm rest). Buy stamps or send a letter in the Church post office at All Saints Church in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire. Or even visit an art exhibition at Holy Trinity Church in Leeds.

In 2014, Ride+Stride is aiming to raise over £1.5 million for the restoration and preservation of the UK’s historic churches, chapels and meeting houses. Find out how to take part by visiting our How to Ride+Stride page.

Sep
18
Thu
Brown bin day
Sep 18 all-day

Brown bin collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

  • Grass
  • Leaves
  • Weeds
  • Flowers and plants
  • Hedge clippings
  • Branches (not more than 10cm thick)
  • Prunings and twigs
  • Windfall fruit
  • Hay / Straw (soiled animal bedding from non-meat eating animals only eg rabbits)
  • Vegetable waste from the garden only eg potato tops (not kitchen waste)

The following cannot be put in the brown bin:

  • Food or kitchen waste (put this in your food waste bin)
  • Cat or dog faeces
  • Vacuum dust or fire cinders
  • Soil, stones or rubble
  • Wood that has been treated or painted
  • Cardboard, Tetra packs (milk or juice cartons), or wrapping paper (these can go in your green recycling bin)
  • Plastic flower pots, trays or bags
  • Weeds that need reporting to the Environment Agency, like Japanese knotweed and ragwort.

For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/garden-waste/garden-waste-faq

Food waste caddy day
Sep 18 all-day

Food waste caddy collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

Food waste items

All your raw and cooked food waste such as leftovers and spoilt food, and including:

  • meat and fish – raw and cooked including bones
  • all dairy products such as cheese and eggs
  • raw and cooked vegetables and fruit
  • bread, cakes and pastries
  • rice, pasta and beans
  • uneaten food from your plates and dishes
  • tea bags and coffee grounds
  • cooking oil, lard and fats (do not put cooking oil in plastic containers)
  • old flowers
What cannot go in your food recycling bin?
  • packaging
  • plastic bags
  • glass

These can all go in your recycling bin.

Lining your food recycling caddy

Food waste for recycling can be put into your caddy loose, wrapped in a couple of sheets of newspaper, or in caddy liners with the code EN 13432. Caddy liners are composted along with the food at our in-vessel composting plant but are removed at our anaerobic digestion plants and used to make refuse derived fuel.


For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/food-waste

Green bin day
Sep 18 all-day

Green bin collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

All paper and cardboard, including:

  • books – only if not suitable for taking to a charity shop
    catalogues
  • phone directories (including the Yellow Pages)
  • cereal boxes
  • corrugated cardboard
  • envelopes (including envelopes with windows)
  • greeting cards
  • junk mail
  • magazines
  • newspapers
  • shredded paper (loose)
  • tissue boxes
  • toilet roll tubes
  • writing paper
  • Mixed glass bottles and jars – any colour (and bottle tops, but please separate them)

All plastic bags, bottles, pots, tubs and trays (except film):

  • plastic or carrier bags (except black bags)
  • detergent bottles
  • drinks bottles (and tops)
  • food and drink cartons (Tetra Paks)
  • food trays
  • general plastic packaging
  • ice cream tubs
  • margarine tubs
  • plastic milk cartons and bottles
  • shampoo bottles
  • yoghurt pots

Remember: When possible, please remove the tops and squash the bottle to make more space in your bin.

Metal

  • aerosols
  • clean foil
  • food tins
  • steel and aluminium food and drink cans (please wash and squash them first)
  • metal lids (bottle and jar lids)

All these can go in your bin together and should be loose (no bagged materials). It’s best if all materials are clean – this helps to keep your bin clean and reduces contamination of the recycling . If you fill your green bin you can put extra recycling out for collection next to your bin in either clear or see through sacks, carrier bags or cardboard boxes.

Batteries

Batteries can be recycled on your recycling collection day. Just pop them in a clear plastic bag (such as a sandwich bag or food bag) on top of your green recycling bin.

We can collect household batteries, such as 6v batteries, 9v batteries (transistor batteries), D, C AA, AAA and button batteries (watch batteries) as well as mobile phone batteries, laptop batteries and lithium batteries with tape across the terminals.

We cannot collect batteries with trailing wires, car batteries, or other industrial batteries but you may be able to take these to a Household Waste Recycling Centre. For further information on battery recycling and disposal facilities, please see the Oxfordshire A-Z section on batteries.


For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/recycling/what-can-i-recycle