Rinse and recycle your plastics

TAMESIDE residents are being reminded to rinse and recycle their plastic pots, tubs and trays in their black bin.

Recycle Week, which runs from 22-29 September 2025, marks one year since Tameside Council and other Greater Manchester authorities started accepting plastic pots, tub and trays in the mixed recycling bin along with plastic bottles, aerosols, foil, foil trays, drink cans, food tins, glass bottles and jars.

Mixed recycling loads are then delivered to Recycle for Greater Manchester’s Materials Recovery Facility in Sharston, Manchester. Here, plastic pots, tubs and trays are separated and sent to a processor to be recycled into plastic pellets.

Residents are asked to please rinse out their recycling as recycling that’s covered in food is less likely to be recycled and food also damaged the sorting equipment at the materials recovery facility.

Tameside Council Executive Member for Environmental Services and Neighbourhoods Cllr Laura Boyle said: “We’re asking everyone to keep up the brilliant work of recycling your pots, tubs and trays when recycling plastics. The more you can recycle, the better it is for the environment but also it reduces the costs of sending waste for disposal which is more expensive , safeguarding our limited funds for key local services that are most important to residents.”

For more information on recycling see www.tameside.gov.uk/recycling