Waste Aware Scotland | Information about how to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle your waste across Scotland. Practical information on recycling plastic, cans, paper, glass and other materials

Waste Aware Scotland provides you with helpful advice on how and why to reduce, reuse and recycle your household waste.

Sort It

The Sort It tool helps you to find out about recycling services in your local area. You can search for details about your kerbside collection scheme, locate your nearest recycling centre or find out how to arrange collection of bulky items.

Sort It also provides details of a wide range of outlets across Scotland that offer goods and services to help you to reduce and reuse your household waste.

Visit www.sort-it.org.uk to find out more.

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