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Published on 19 September 2016
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Jars
Re-use glass jars where possible, eg. for preserving food or as containers for small items such as pins or screws.
Recycle with other glass in your green recycling box.
Alternatively, take to a recycling centre or glass bottle recycling bank.
Junk mail
Use your reusable sack for paper (please remove any plastic wrapping, but plastic windows can be left in).
You can also take junk mail to a paper recycling bank or local recycling centre.
Alternatively, find out how you can stop receiving junk mail on Recycle Devon's webpage Junk Mail Getting you Down?.
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Kitchen knives
Consider advertising unwanted but reusable kitchen knives on an online marketplace.
You can also take knives to your local recycling centre. Please approach a member of staff for safe disposal, and if they are particularly sharp, wrap them in newspaper.
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Light bulbs
Take to a recycling centre or to the light bulb bank in Methodist Church car park, Bovey Tracey.
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Medicine bottles
Unused medicines should be returned to your local chemist or pharmacy.
Empty glass and plastic bottles can go in your green and black recycling boxes for collection.
Medicines (old)
Unused medicines should be returned to your local chemist or pharmacy.
Metal
Many metals can be re-used by the scrap metal industry. Either contact a local scrap merchant or take to your local recycling centre.
Empty aerosol cans, drinks cans, and food tins should be put in your black recycling box.
Milk bottles
Rinse and squash your plastic milk bottles and put in your black recycling box.
Alternatively, plastic milk bottles can be recycled at a plastics bank.
Consider buying your milk in returnable glass bottles. On average the glass milk bottles used by the milkmen are reused 24 times. This saves energy and resources each time they are returned. If you use reusable glass milk bottles please ensure they are returned to the milkman or dairy.
Mobile phones
We can collect mobile phones and chargers as part of the kerbside collection scheme in your green recycling box (please place these out on a dry day together in a plastic bag).
Alternatively, mobile phones and their associated accessories can be recycled at one of many take back schemes.