Properties not suitable for wheelie bins, or within rural communities are now able to recycle tins, cans, glass bottles, cardboard and paper with the introduction of a blue and white recycling sack scheme.

Each property receives a roll of blue sacks and a roll of white sacks, together with an information leaflet and a calendar.

What goes where?

Your Blue Sack

Yes Please

• Cardboard e.g. Cereal boxes, Food packaging, delivery boxes, cards, toilet rolls
• Paper e.g. Newspaper, Office paper, Catalogues, Magazines, Junk Mail

Your White Sack

Yes Please

• Tetrapaks e.g. cartons
• Plastics e.g. Drinks bottles, Milk bottles, Shampoo bottles, Tubs, Yoghurt pots
• Glass bottles & Jars e.g. Wine bottles, Spirit bottles, Jam jars, Beer bottles
• Tins, Cans & Aerosols

Please do not put any of the following into your sacks: 

No thank you:

• Garden waste
• Food / Liquids
• Plastic Wrap e.g. cellophane, crisp packets, carrier bags)
• Nappies
• Hoover Dust
• Textiles

Recycling Advice

Please wash out all tins and cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, plastic trays etc.
To make the most of your recycling sacks, crush, squash or flatten materials where possible.

When should I put my sacks out?

These sacks should be set out on the same day as your usual refuse collection, once every two weeks. Please consult the calendar you received with your rolls of sacks to see which week your recycling will be collected.

How to order more recycling sacks

If you have run out of recycling sacks, please contact our customer service team on 01824 706101 or email customerservice@denbighshire.gov.uk.

Where does the scheme operate?

This service is currently operating in Llangollen, Corwen, Denbigh, Ruthin, Rhyl & Prestatyn and the following villages -

• Betws Gwerfyl Goch
• Bodfari
• Carrog
• Clawddnewydd
• Cwm
• Cyffylliog
• Cynwyd
• Derwen
• Gellifor
• Glyndyfrydwy
• Graigfechan
• Graianrhyd
• Gwyddelwern
• Llanarmon yn Ial
• Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
• Llandegla
• Llandrillo
• Llandyrnog
• Llanelidan
• Llanrhaeadr
• Melin y Wig
• Nantglyn
• Pentrecelyn
• Pentre Llanrhaeadr
• Prion
• Pwllglas
• Rhewl
• Rhuallt
• Saron
• Tremeirchion

Blue & White Recycling Sacks (pdf, 2,062.68 KB)   

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