Recycling in Earley
Here are some ideas on where to take items which are not so easy to recycle.
| Mobile phones |
Crescent Centre,Warbler Drive
Any Nationwide Building Society
Any Oxfam shop |
| Glasses (spectacles) |
Crescent Centre,Warbler Drive |
| Household batteries |
Many shops (including Asda) now accept these.
Civic Offices, Reading
Smallmead tip |
| Stamps |
Crescent Centre,Warbler Drive
Public Library, Chalfont Way |
| Foreign coins/old coins |
Crescent Centre,Warbler Drive
Royal Berks Hospital (main reception) |
| Printer cartridges |
Crescent Centre,Warbler Drive (not Epson) |
| Aluminium / Tin foil |
Now collected with weekly black box recycling |
| Wool/knitted blankets |
Crescent Centre,Warbler Drive |
| Tetrapak cartons (milk, juice,etc.) |
Now collected with weekly black box recycling |
| Garden pesticides |
Smallmead tip. Ask the site staff where to put them. (for safe disposal rather than recycling) |
 Useful websites;
https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/rubbish-and-recycling/
https://www.reading.gov.uk/recycling
https://groups.freecycle.org/ReadingUK/posts/all
Thanks to Anne Booth for these details.
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