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Aerosols
Clothing & textiles
Electrical items
Food waste
Furniture
Medicines

All items

A

AEROSOLS
ANIMAL BEDDING

B

Bath towels
Batteries
Bedding & blankets
Beds
Bicycles
Birthday cards
Biscuit & sweet tins
Books
Bottles & jars
Bras
Bricks
Bubblewrap
Buttons

C

Cans
Car batteries
Carpets
Carrier bags
Cars
Cartons
Cassette players
Cat litter
Catalogues
Chairs
Chemicals
Chest freezers
Chest of drawers
Christmas decorations
Christmas tree lights
Christmas trees
Clingfilm
Clinical waste
Cloth nappies
Clothes
Clothes hangers
Coffee pods/capsules
Coins (foreign & old)
Computer monitors
Computers
Cookers
Cooking oil
Corks
Crisp packets
Crockery & Cutlery
Cupboards
Curtains
Cushions
Cutlery

D

Diesel & Petrol
Dishwashers
DIY equipment
DIY waste
Doors
Duvets & pillows
DVD's & CD's

E

Egg boxes
Egg shells
Energy-saving bulbs
Engine oil
Envelopes

F

Fabrics
Fat
Filters (water)
Fire extinguishers
Fluorescent tubes
Food & drink cartons
Food tins & drink cans
Fridges & freezers

G

Games & toys
Garden chemicals
Garden waste
Gardening tools
Gas bottles
Gift & toy packaging
Gift-wrap
Glass
Glasses
Greetings cards

H

Hardcore & rubble
Hazardous waste
Hearing aids

I

Inkjet cartridges
Ironing boards

J

Jars
Jewellery
Junk mail

K

Keyboards (musical)
Kitchen appliances
Kitchen roll

L

Laptops
Lawnmowers

M

Mattresses
Milk bottles
Mirrors

N

Nappies (disposable)
Newspapers

O

Ovens

P

Packaging (food)
Paint
Paint cans
Paper
Paper coffee cups
Paper towels
Pet food
Petrol
Photographs
Plasterboard
Plastic bags
Plastic film
Polystyrene
Pyrex

R

Rags
Records
Rubble
Rugs

S

Sellotape
Shoes & boots
Shredded paper
Sideboards
Sofas / settees
Spectacles
Stamps
Sticky tape
Stools
Sweet tins

T

Tables
Tea bags
Tea towels
Tetrapaks
Textiles & clothing
Tiles (floor and wall)
Timber & wood
Tools
Toys & games
Tumble dryers
Tyres

V

Vegetable oil

W

Wallpaper
Wardrobes
Washer dryers
Washing machines
Watches
Water filters
White goods
Wine bottles
Wool
Wrapping Paper

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