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Black Recycling Box
Recycling boxes - Collected every week Each household will have three recycling boxes, one for paper, one for glass bottles and jars and one for cardboard. NB: from 5th April 2021 card and glass must… Content last updated: 21 March 2025
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Household Recycling Centres
Find your nearest Recycling Centre. From 31st of march 2024 the HRCs will be operating new opening times Content last updated: 13 March 2024
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Bins and Recycling
The seasonal kerbside garden waste collections service will end on Friday 29 November 2024 and resume on Monday 31 March 2025. Green garden waste is accepted at the Household Recycling Centres (HRCs)… Content last updated: 03 April 2025
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Find your nearest Household Recycling Centre
Household Recycling Centres/Civic Amenity Sites are provided by the Council for residents to dispose of their household waste. For further information please, refer to our Household Recycling Centre G… Content last updated: 20 February 2025
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Blue Reusable Recycling Sack
Collected every week. YES PLEASE! Plastic bottles e.g. milk, drink, shampoo bottles Food containers - e.g. yoghurt pots, margarine tubs Food trays (e.g. ready meal trays) Punnets Foil trays and conta… Content last updated: 02 November 2023
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Merthyr Tydfil hits recycling target for eighth consecutive year
Residents of Merthyr Tydfil recycled, composted, or re-used 64.8% of waste in the past year – surpassing the Welsh Government (WG) target of 64%! Although we reduced the amount of waste we sent to E… Content last updated: 08 December 2023
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How to order recycling, food, and garden waste containers
Wheeled Bin Charges From 1st April 2025 there will be a £18.72 administration and delivery charge for any new and replacement wheeled bins. All residents, whether new or existing householders will hav… Content last updated: 29 April 2025
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Combat ‘ych-a-fi’ to unleash the power of your food waste recycling
Wales may be a small country, but when it comes to recycling, we punch way above our weight. With 95% of us regularly recycling our waste, we’re already the third best recycling nation in the world, a… Content last updated: 09 February 2023
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Household Recycling Centre Map
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Plastics recycling plant would create more than 100 jobs
Local residents are being consulted on plans to construct a plastic recycling and processing facility that would create more than 100 local jobs. As well as providing around 110-plus direct employment… Content last updated: 03 March 2022
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Warning issued against recycling gas canisters and laptop batteries
A warning is being issued for Merthyr Tydfil County Borough residents not to put any gas canisters, such as those used in camping, out with their kerbside recycling or wheeled bin collections. During… Content last updated: 03 September 2021
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It's Recycling Week 2024!
Did you know you can now recycle 12 different materials at the kerbside every week? Plastic bottles, tubs and trays – blue bag Metal food and drink cans – blue bag Aluminium foil – blue bag T… Content last updated: 06 November 2024
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We want your help to name the Councils new recycling vehicles!
We heard of an English Council giving its residents the opportunity to name their gritting fleet, with some wonderfully creative names being suggested; David Plowie, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Walter Th… Content last updated: 22 December 2022
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Greta ‘Bin’ Burg, Shred Sheeran and Plastic Swayze among winning names given to new recycling fleet
A brand new fleet of recycling vehicles, with some creative and comical names, are now serving the residents of Merthyr Tydfil, in a bid to raise recycling awareness within the communities.Hundreds of… Content last updated: 19 April 2024
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Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council supports the mighty mission to help Wales become the number one recycling nation this Recycle Week
Wales is already the third best recycling nation in the world, and the Mighty Mission to get us to number one continues into Recycle Week 2021 from 20 to 26 September. Recycling plays an essential rol… Content last updated: 20 September 2021