Recycling is easy in the High Peak with our kerbside recycling and rubbish collection services.
The services offered to High Peak households are based on best practice developed by some of the UK's top local authority recyclers and will enable the council to meet challenging targets for recycling and rubbish collection. The service is convenient, collects more materials for recycling and encourages people to put less in their rubbish bins.
The collections are part of our overall aim to enhance the quality of the local and global environment. It is a small but important part of a European-wide strategy to tackle climate change.
Huge progress has been made in High Peak since 2004, with the amount of rubbish being recycled increasing from around 10% in 2005 to over 40% in 2009. This is due to the new services that High Peak Borough Council has introduced, combined with the fantastic efforts of all residents.
There is still more that residents can do however, please see further down the page for a reminder of what you can recycle in High Peak.
Residents of High Peak can now add food waste into their green lidded bin along with cardboard and garden waste. Food waste will include fruit and veg, meat and fish, leftovers, tea bags, bread and dairy products. The Council will be contacting all residents with further information before the change is made, so please look out for this exciting new development.
| MATERIAL AND YOUR COLLECTION CONTAINERS | WHAT CAN GO IN EACH BIN? | |
|---|---|---|
| YES PLEASE! | NO THANKS! | |
 Extra garden waste WILL NOT be collected |
 Garden waste (eg. leaves, grass, prunings, cardboard (from cereal boxes to heavy duty boxes)All food waste including fruit & veg, meat, fish, leftovers, teabags, bread and dairy products. None of the above can be contained in plastic bags. |
 Plastic bags, drinks cartons, waxed and foil-wrapped cardboard, plastic, soil/compost, animal litter/bedding, faeces, wood/coal ash, rocks/rubble |
 Extra recycling WILL be collected |
Clear, brown and green glass bottles and jars Please rinse and remove caps Foil, aluminium and steel drinks cans and food containers, empty aerosols and clean foil trays Please wash and squash cans |
Milk bottles, glasses, glass crockery and glass saucepan lids, window glass, light bulbs
Other metal objects including saucepans, cutlery etc |
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Newspapers, magazines, junk mail, phone book, Yellow Pages |
Envelopes, hardback books,greetings cards |
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Clothing, textiles and shoes |
Duvets and pillows |
 Please use RECYCLING CENTRES |
Plastic Banks for all rigid plastic packaging, including bottles, pots, trays and tubs. Please wash and squash Carton Banks for paper-based cartons (for example fruit juice, soup or long-life milk cartons). |
Plastic Banks Plastic bags, plastic film, expanded polystyrene Carton Banks Regular cardboard/paper |
 Extra rubbish WILL NOT be collected. |
Rubbish that cannot be recycled or composted. Lids must be closed |
Rubble, large quantities of soil, electrical equipment. |
Since 4 August 2008, High Peak Borough Council have formed a partnership with the UK's leading waste management company, Veolia Environmental Services. The new contract will help High Peak residents recycle, reduce and reuse waste with a brand new fleet of high performing vehicles.
All containers should be set out the night before your collection, at the edge of your property next to the highway. They will be emptied provided that they are not over-filled or over heavy, and returned to the edge of your property. Wheeled bins must then be returned to your property after collection. It is not acceptable to leave wheeled bins on the road or pavement in-between collections.
If non-compostable waste, such as plastic bags, is placed in the green-lidded bin, this is known as contamination. If your bin is contaminated it may not be emptied.
Your collection schedule may be disrupted at the Christmas/New Year holiday period. Residents are asked to refer to their collection calendars. Revised collection schedules are normally publicised in the Buxton Advertiser, Glossop Reporter group, on this website, and by placing stickers on wheeled bins.
Wheelie bins for new properties are charged at £25 each, including delivery and VAT. If your bin is damaged during emptying then it will be replaced free of charge.
Green boxes are provided free of charge.
To order a new green of black bin, or to request a green box, please use the online forms below: