• Kerbside Recycling
• What Goes Where
• Benefits of the Scheme
• Communal Recycling Points for Flats
• Recycling in Rural Areas
• Contact Details

Kerbside Recycling

The Moray Council’s Kerbside Recycling Service serves over 82% of the population of Moray, and serves the following areas:

Your brown bin for garden waste is collected fortnightly.

Your green bin for  household waste is collected fortnightly.

Blue and orange boxes will be collected every week on the same day as your bins

Please remove the lid from the orange box and place the blue box with the lid attached on top of the orange box.

Please place the boxes and the relevant bin on the kerbside by 7.30am on the appropriate collection day

Lids "Box hats" (a waterproof elasticated cover similar to a shower cap) can be requested by residents having difficulties with the lids provided or if your lid has gone missing. If you have not received a copy of these calendars or wish to request more recycling containers (available free of charge) please Tel: 01343 557 045 or Email  waste@moray.gov.uk.

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What Goes Where

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Benefits of the Scheme

Benefits of the scheme include:

• Greater amounts of household waste being recycled
• Households will be able to take note of what waste they generate, and possibly reduce it
• Smaller amounts of waste going into general waste, which means fewer bin bags, less clutter, and a generally cleaner environment
• Greater convenience in segregating recyclables
• Reduced reliance on recycling points and centres
• Reduced amounts of waste going to landfill

Households that do not use the boxes provided may cease to have their regular bins uplifted. 

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Communal Recycling Points for Flats

In properties which may not have space for the boxes, recycling bags are provided to allow householders to recycle their food & drink cans, glass bottles & jars and paper-based products at Communal Recycling Points.

All the same materials listed in the blue and orange box sections can be recycled in the Communal can, glass and paper recycling points. All colours of glass can be recycled in the glass CONTAINERS.

The Communal Recycling Points are open 24 hours a day. Please be courteous to other residents and try not to use the Recycling Points during unsociable hours.

Most flats are not provided with a garden waste bin (brown bin). However, ground floor flats with gardens can be provided with these bins where necessary.

As with the Blue and Orange box scheme, this Kerbside Recycling service allows you to recycle most of your household waste. Therefore, collection of your normal household waste bin has now changed from weekly to fortnightly.

Households served by the scheme have been issued with calendars to remind people of the dates of each bin collection. If you have not received a copy of these calendars please call 01343 557 045 or Email waste@moray.gov.uk.

Over the Christmas and New Year period, there will be an increase in the collection of household waste bins. Please see local press for details nearer the time.

For more information about this service, or if you are not sure if your property is served by the Kerbside Recycling scheme, please call 01343 557 045 or Email waste@moray.gov.uk.

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Recycling in Rural Areas

Householders who are not served by the Kerbside Recycling service will see no change to their current collection service. Provisions have been made to increase the number of rural recycling points across Moray, please see Recycling Centres and Points    section for further details.

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Contact Details

For further information please contact the Recycling Team

Tel: 01343 557045
Email  waste@moray.gov.uk.

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