Tips to reduce your waste

Other ways to reduce, reuse and recycle your household waste

Bring banks

North Dorset District Council operates 90 bring bank recycling sites.  A variety of materials can be recycled at these sites including glass, cans, paper & magazines, clothing, shoes, plastic bottles and aluminium foil. Please contact the Council or visit www.north-dorset.gov.uk for your nearest bring site.

Household Recycling Centres at Blandford, Shaftesbury or Sherborne

Dorset County Council provides recycling centres for glass, cans, paper & magazines, wood (not painted or treated), all metals, electric cable, garden waste, household batteries, electrical items, car batteries, used engine oil, furniture, fluorescent light tubes, rubble and hardcore. Please see www.dorsetforyou.com/waste for more information.

Garden waste

Garden waste can not be collected through the new wheeled bin scheme. It can be taken to the Household Recycling Centres at Blandford, Shaftesbury or Sherborne and dispose of it free of charge.   

The best thing to do with garden waste is to compost it at home.  This is very easy to do, and it makes a rich compost to help improve your soil.  Home compost bins can be purchased at a heavily subsidised rate through a scheme run jointly by the Dorset Authorities and WRAP.  For details of the offer please click here. How to start home composting

If you would like to dispose of garden waste at the kerbside you will need to purchase prepaid additional rubbish sacks from the Council which should be put out for collection next to your blue bin. (Please note that this waste will be sent to landfill).

Also see the Recycle Now site.