All households in Shropshire are offered a fortnightly kerbside collection of recycling. You should be provided with three boxes, and we ask that you separate your material out into those three boxes. It doesn't matter which colour box you use, as long as you separate out your materials as follows:

Box 1 Paper Newspapers Magazines
Box 2 Glass bottles Glass Jars
Box 3 Drinks cans Food tins Foils and aerosols Plastic bottles

You may include the following materials:

Newspapers and glossy magazines	Blue glass bottles	Metal food tins	Plastic pop bottles
Comics, journals and periodicals	Green glass bottles	Metal drinks cans	Plastic milk bottles
Yellow Pages and other phone books	Amber glass bottles	Aerosols	Plastic cleaning fluid bottles
Mail order catalogues	Clear glass bottles	Tin foil	Plastic spray bottles
Paper bags	Blue glass jars	Large tins e.g. Quality Street	Plastic mineral water bottles
Leaflets and Junk Mail	Green glass jars	Foil packaging	Plastic shampoo & conditioner bottles
Letters, computer print outs and stationery	Amber glass jars	Metal lids and caps from jars and bottles	Plastic washing up liquid bottles
Envelopes, post cards and greetings cards	Clear glass jars		Plastic ketchup bottles
Coloured paper			Plastic bleach bottles
Wrapping paper and brown paper			Plastic screen wash bottles

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