Hang on to your single use plastic (not taken by Horsham DC).
Greeting Steyning hope to have a stand at April’s Farmers Market with the change in Covid restrictions. So hold on to those hard-to-recycle items you’ve been collecting until we’re up and running again. Recycling drop-offs are still open in Lancing and Horsham but only if you are travelling there anyway for essential reasons. Here’s a handy guide for you to print off showing what goes in what bin and what we can take at the Farmer’s Market.
| Yes, please recycle me | No thank you – general refuse bin |
| Paper and card: Junk mail; cereal and egg boxes; newspapers and magazines; wrapping paper (if scrunchable); catalogues and directories | Cling film and any food packaging that’s not on this list anywhere |
| Foil: clean takeaway containers; foil trays; tinfoil | Wrappers from bakeries (with holes in) |
| Glass bottles and jars: wine bottles; beer bottles; perfume bottles; jam jars; sauce jars | Food and drink pouches |
| Metal cans and aerosols: food and drink cans; pet-food cans; empty aerosols; biscuit and sweet tins | Film lids from trays and pots Plant pots |
| Cartons: fruit juice cartons; custard cartons; soup cartons; milk cartons | Compostable or biodegradable bags |
| Plastic bottles and containers: milk/drinks bottles; bathroom/laundry bottles and tops; moulded plastic packaging; food, fruit and ready meal pots, tubs and trays; plastic container lids | Shredded paper; paper towels and tissues |
Horsham District Council have produced a simplified list of what goes in your blue top bin and a flyer.
You can order this flyer for your fridge
If you can’t find where to recycle your items then there is a detailed A-Z of how to recycling materials produced by West Sussex County Council.
What about other single use plastic packaging?
Large producers have to recycle 60% plus of their packaging and so will pay charities for collecting the items below. If you collected up these items and bring them to the monthly Steyning farmer’s market, we will have wheelie bins for them. Any monies received from producers are donated to the local schools and charities. UPDATE MARCH 2021: WE HOPE TO BE BACK AT THE FARMERS MARKET IN APRIL.
If you’re travelling to Horsham take these items to Sussex Green Living’s main drop off location at the Quaker Meeting House, Worthing Road, RH12 1SL. Further information https://www.facebook.com/SussexGreenLivingRecycling or https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/recycling-zone/single-use/ where you can learn about other village drop off locations in Horsham District.
Or to Lancing to ‘Douglas’ 34 Firle Road, BN15 0NZ. Further info here https://www.facebook.com/recyclinginLancing/ or https://recyclinginlancing.org.uk)
If you can’t reach the Steyning Farmers Market then there are other local shops or voluntary organisations who collect recyclable items:
- Helen’s Rubbish – Clothing, fabrics, soft toys, batteries, crisps and plastic milk bottle tops.
- Upper Beeding Primary School – batteries, inkjet cartridges, marigold gloves, beauty product and home hygiene packaging.
- Sussex Green Living – lots and lots of single use plastic types.
- Terracycle – guide to where to recycle single use plastic.
- Robinsons Opticians – recycle contact lens cases.
- Steyning Stationers – recycle batteries and inkjet cartridges.
- Co-op – recycles batteries.
- Supermarkets – Carrier bags and stretchy plastic.
- Electrical Items – list of companies that take back electrical items.
If you have anything that could be repaired email the Repair Café on repaircafe@greeningsteyning.org
What single use plastic we will take at Steyning Farmer’s Market – NOT DURING NATIONAL LOCKDOWN
- PLEASE NOTE: Used bread bags are perfect for separating out your recycling
- Cat & dog food – plastic pouches & flexible bags (MUST be clean and dry and in a separate bag)
- Baby food pouches, lids and baby snack wrappers – Any brand (please bring in plastic bags which we will recycle)
- Ballpoint pens, felt tips, biros, correction fluid, markers & highlighters
- Flexible plastic sweet, chocolate, biscuit, cake & cracker wrappers (includes cheddars and kitkats) AND bread bags,
- Personal care & beauty products – plastic bottle caps, trigger heads, pumps, tubes, roll-on-deodorant & flexible plastic wipe packaging.
- Resealable packaging for dishwasher and washing machine tablets and fragrance flexible packaging
- Resealable packaging for cheese
- Plastic air fresheners. Home Cleaning products: plastic bottle caps, trigger heads and pumps, cleaning wipe packaging
- Used toothbrushes, toothbrush plastic packaging (remove the cardboard) toothpaste tubes and floss packaging
- Home Cleaning products: plastic bottle caps, trigger heads and pumps, cleaning wipe packaging.
- Plastic bottle tops
- Crisp and snack packets including twiglets (please flatten and place in tied plastic bags)
- Popcorn, pretzel and nut packets
- Marigold brand Gloves (domestic only), Marigold packaging
- Beauty Products: mascaras, lipsticks, lip balms, eye shadow compacts, facial wipe packets, tubes from moisturisers and creams, highlighter & bronzer sticks
If you can provide the items split down into the bullet point categories above that is appreciated as we have to sort them into these categories.
We will have three big bins labelled:
1) Biscuit, sweet, chocolate and cheese wrappers.
2) Pet food pouches
3) Flattened crisp packets
And five buckets for:
- Pens
- Toothpaste tubes and brushes
- Home cleaning and washing products
- Beauty products
- Bottle Tops
If you’re travelling to Horsham take them to the Quaker meeting house or to Lancing to ‘Douglas’ 34 Firle Road, BN15 0NZ. Further info here https://www.facebook.com/recyclinginLancing/ or https://recyclinginlancing.org.uk
What are the economics of the recycling we collect?
And what happens to the waste we collect?
Can also look at the following page on providing more opportunities to recycle those ‘hard to recycle’ item
If you have anything that could be repaired email the Repair Café on repaircafe@greeningsteyning.org
