Black box
The black box is provided to help you recycle glass bottles and jars.
We no longer collect small electrical items, household batteries or textiles in the black box, please do not put these materials inside your black box.
What can I put in my black box?↑
Yes please
- Glass bottles
- Glass jars
No thanks
- Pyrex dishes
- Window or flat glass
- Broken glass
- Drinking glasses
- Crockery
- Pots and pans
- Light bulbs
- Hairdryers
- Hair straighteners
- Radios
- Irons
- Kettles
- Toasters
- Electrical toys
- Electrical drills and tools
- Fairy lights
- Phone chargers
- Household batteries (battery sizes A, AA, AAA, C and D)
- Button batteries (watch batteries, calculator batteries, laptop batteries, mobile phone batteries)
How to recycle electrical items?↑
Retailers will take back and recycle your old electrical item when you buy a new one, regardless of brand, or whether the item being returned was bought in store, online or via mail order - and they must do it for free.
The following items can be taken to a recycling centre:
- Light bulbs
- TVs
- Computer monitors
- Microwaves
- Vacuum cleaners
- Batteries (car/van/household)
- Power tools
- Cordless appliances
- Power packs
- Motorised toys
- Washing machines
How to recycle textiles?↑
Textiles can be recycled at a recycling point, recycling centre or donated to charity shops.
What can I recycle at the textile recycling points?
- Clothing
- Towels
- Blankets and curtains
- Shoes (tied in pairs)
- Handbags and belts
- Quilt covers, pillow cases and sheets (NOT duvets)
Please ensure that all textile items are dry, shoes are tied into pairs and that a knot is tied in the top of the bag to keep the textiles dry.
Retailer take-back scheme
There are a growing number of take-back schemes for textiles such as eg Dunelm or Marks & Spencer. Dunelm in Falkirk have online and in-store recycling facilities for:
- all home textiles (excluding duvets and pillows)
- clothing
- shoes
- accessories, including reusable and non-reusable items.
For more information visit the Dunelm take back scheme.