Do you remember when Leeds had a life-sized owl giving out recycling advice?🦉💚Here's a bin-tastic story about how Leeds got its first green bins ♻️🗑️in the 1990s, courtesy of a Leeds Libraries blog about a talk from Leeds Beckett 's Henry Irving
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🚨JOBS🚨 Chargehand Drivers🚛supporting upto 3 loaders on a collection team emptying Leeds bins. Need a LGV Class C licence & current Driver CPC card (DCPD) with driving history as a LGV Class 2 driver. Apply here👉 jobs.leeds.gov.uk/jobs/loader-re… See more👉 orlo.uk/WorkForUs_96THL

That's a can-tastic video!🥫♻️

Happy #EarthDay2024 ♻️The🌈 is only here until the end of today. Enter the COMPETITION to be in with a chance of WINNING a £150 Trinity Leeds gift card! Just post a picture of the rainbow arch using the hashtag #EveryCanCounts and tag Every Can Counts UK
#RecycleYourDrinksCan 🌍👍

Its a beautiful day to visit Leeds' City Square and marvel at a 🌈! Post a picture of the 4.5m x 7m wide recyclable drinks can arch using #EveryCanCounts & tag Every Can Counts UK and you could WIN the crock of gold💰as a £150 Trinity Leeds gift card! T&Cs👉 everycancounts.co.uk/leeds-earth-da…

Check out the🌈that's arrived in Leeds City Square to celebrate #EarthDay on Monday! It reminds us drink cans are 100% recyclable in your green bin. Post a pic of the arch using #EveryCanCounts tagging Every Can Counts UK to win £150💰 TRINITY LEEDS gift card: everycancounts.co.uk/leeds-earth-da…

Is it plastic and a bottle? Then no matter whether its small or big, you can green bin it!💚 🗑️

Recyclable cardboard and paper doesn't just come with your Amazon or e-Bay deliveries! It's in the junk mail on your door step through to your yummy cereal box and delicious dinners😋 ♻️ 😇 It's even hiding inside your 🧻

You 'butter' believe it🧈! Your empty spread tubs can all be recycled as well as other pots, tubs and trays. We're talking yoghurt pots, coleslaw tubs and trays for fresh pasta or veg.
Give them a quick wipe or rinse and then recycle ♻️

You CAN recycle stretchy plastic bags in your green bin 🤯 Even if they say 'recycle with carrier bags at larger stores.' Frozen veg bags, knackered carrier bags & bread bags are type 4 plastic (LDPE). Do the stretch test: if it stretches ➡️ green bin. If it tears ➡️ black bin.

Let the recycling genie🧞‍♂️ out of the plastic bottle🧴! If it’s plastic and bottle shaped, recycle it ♻️ Even if its had greasy olive oil or soapy detergent in it. Remember, the lids and the pumps can go in the green bin too!👍

Doctor's orders... used plastic vitamin bottles and old cardboard medicine boxes with their paper instructions can go in your green bin! Blister packs💊 can only be recycled at your local Superdrug pharmacy stores.

Did you go the egg-stra mile and finish off all your choccy Easter Eggs 🍫 yet? Just so you know...the cardboard, the foil and the plastic egg holder thing are all recyclable! leeds.gov.uk/greenbin

Hands up who had a take-away from a foil or plastic container last night?🙋‍♂️
Now hands up who rinsed and recycled them in their green bin?!

Our recycling centres are open 7 days a week from this week on summer opening hours 8am-6pm. Broken electricals can be deposited there but working ones can be dropped into our orange reuse containers or the Revive shops on our Kirkstall/Seacroft sites leeds.gov.uk/recycling ♻️

Almost finished off all your choc Easter eggs? Did you know an estimated 80m Easter Eggs are purchased in the UK each year? You'd have to pretty hardboiled to not like one! Do something egg-cellent and remember to drop all the foil and cardboard all go in the green bin😋 🍫 🥚

The first brown bins are out of hi-bin-ation!!! To check when your bins are being collected leeds.gov.uk/mybinday or download the Leeds Bins App... android - orlo.uk/Android_417Ph apple - orlo.uk/Apple_zHxI9 📲

Happy Easter! If you want to give a new life to your old belongings - you can drop them off at the Revive shops at our household waste recycling sites in Kirkstall and Seacroft. All our household recycling sites are open today and tomorrow. More info here leeds.gov.uk/recycling

Whether you're eating a choc one, or painting a real one this weekend, be a good egg and pop that cardboard and balled-up foil in the green bin!♻️ 🥚 💚

🚨BROWN BIN COLLECTION RE-START ON MONDAY🚨
Don’t “leaf” it to the last minute, check your collection dates at leeds.gov.uk/mybinday or download the Leeds Bins app. You could also start home composting your clippings & get a discount off composters 👉 leeds.gov.uk/compost 🍁