Want to recycle more? Find out what else you can recycle in your local area using Recycle Now's recycling locator.
You can also find handy hints on how to reduce, reuse and recycle more on the #LeedsByExample website.
Computers
Contact, a Leeds community interest company, are always looking for donations of unwanted computer equipment. They refurbish them for use by other not-for-profit and community organisations or recycle the materials. Their telephone number is 0113 242 4421. Computers from your home can also be taken to your nearest recycling centre. Please put them in the electronic equipment skip. Materials such as plastics and metals are recycled into new products.
Cooking oil
Crisp packets
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Large supermarkets usually provide collection containers at the front of the store for a wide range of plastic packaging that can't go in your green bin, for example, the tearable (not stretchy) plastic wrappers, bags, and film from cereal, pasta, dried fruit, crisps, chocolate and biscuits, paper products, salad, fruit and vegetable products.
They will be recycled into new plastic products. Alternatively, tearable plastic wrappers, bags and film can be placed in your black bin. As a general rule, if plastic wrap is stretchy (rather than tearable), then it can be recycled in your green bin.
Crockery, ceramics, China
You can take broken crockery to your local recycling centre where you should put it in the rubble and inerts skip. It will be used for road building or surface cover on a landfill site. Restrictions apply for disposing of some types of rubbish at our household recycling sites including ceramics. To find out more please see our guide to DIY waste disposal.
Cutlery
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Donate cutlery that is good enough to be reused to your local charity shop or drop off at your local household waste recycling centre's reuse container.
Metal cutlery that isn't good enough to be reused can go in your local household waste recycling centre's scrap metal container.
