Torbay Recycling Information
In this section, residents living in Torbay can find information on recycling and refuse collection.
Find out what your collection days are here.
Find out about household bulky waste collections here.
If you have missed your refuse/recycling collection, please contact SWISCo on tel: 01803 701310 or you can report a missed collection online here.
For more information regarding refuse and recycling in Torbay, please click here.
What can I recycle?
Blue bag:
Paper:
- Newspapers
- Magazines and catalogues
- Yellow Pages, phone books and directories
- Letters, leaflets and junk mail (you may wish to shred letters that contain personal information)
- White envelopes (no need to remove the window)
- Shredded paper (please put in a clearly marked and loosely tied carrier bag. Limited to one bag per collection)
- Coloured paper
Box with orange sticker:
Cardboard:
- Any cardboard packaging, please flatten or fold and place inside box
- One large piece of flattened cardboard will be taken away per collection
- Brown envelopes
- Cardboard cereal boxes
- Cardboard tubes
- Brown paper
- Egg boxes
- Greetings cards (without glitter)
Glass bottles and jars:
- Glass bottles – any colour
- Glass jars – any colour
Cooking oil:
- Please put cooking oil in a sealed, labelled container
Used engine oil:
- Please put engine oil in a sealed, labelled container
Small electricals:
- Kettles, toasters and irons
- Mobile phones, remote controls and chargers
- Electric toothbrushes
- Small radios, electronic toys and games consoles
- Small power tools, i.e. drills
- Hairdryers, hair straighteners, curlers, hair trimmers and shavers
- Please put electrical items in a labelled plastic carrier bag
Box with green sticker:
Household plastic packaging:
- Plastic bottles (please squash the bottles and replace the lid)
- Plastic pots (e.g. yoghurt pots, instant noodle pots)
- Plastic tubs (e.g. margarine and ice cream tubs)
- Plastic trays (e.g. meat and fish trays, fruit punnets and egg boxes)
Foil:
- Foil packaging
- Tin foil (please make sure it’s clean)
- Aluminium food trays
- Foil pet food trays
Food tins and drink cans:
- Metal food tins
- Metal drinks cans
- Large tins (e.g. chocolate tins)
- Metal lids and caps from jars and bottles
Aerosols:
- Empty, metal aerosol cans
Batteries:
- All household batteries
- Button batteries
- Hearing aid batteries
- Mobile phone batteries
- Laptop batteries
Textiles:
- Textiles should be placed in a supermarket size carrier bag and clearly marked. Limited to one bag per collection
- Clean, dry clothes and underwear
- Clean, dry sheets
- Clean, dry towels
- Pairs of shoes/trainers/boots
- Clean, dry cutains
- Accessories – purses, wallets, belts, hats, scarves, ties and jewellery
Food Waste Container
- All cooked and uncooked food waste:
- Bones or carcasses – this includes chicken carcasses
- Bread, pasta, rice and cereals
- Cheese and dairy products
- Fruit and vegetables and peelings
- Meat and fish
- Teabags and coffee grounds
Please remove the packaging from the food first.
Your kitchen caddy can be lined with any type of plastic bag including carrier bags, sandwich bags, pedal bin liners and bread bags. Alternatively, you can use newspaper or compostable bags to line your caddy.
All liners, whether plastic, paper or compostable, are mechanically separated from the food waste and are then disposed of.
Green waste
Optional, chargeable garden waste collection.
- Household garden waste only.
For prices and more information on the garden waste service, please click here.
