The standard recycling collection service for most households (excluding communal properties) is weekly for recycling and food waste. You can check your collection days online Check now If your recycling collection has been missed you can report it online after 7pm on the due day and within three working days (not including the initial collection day itself). Report online Replacement recycling containers. You can do it online or contact your district council customer services. Request online Recycling works – Somerset Waste Partnership’s annual recycling register tells you exactly what has happened to every tonne of recycling you recycled – where it went, what it became and how much it saved. What is collected Standard service (everywhere except Mendip) For full details of what is collected and some top tips, click here Box 1 (usually green) Paper, newspapers, magazines, leaflets, directories, white envelopes (no need to remove windows) and other white paper. Glass bottles and jars, rinsed and unbroken (no table or cook ware). Put metal and plastic tops and lids back on. Box 2 (usually black) Food and drink cans, rinsed and squashed if possible – no need to remove labels – please place loose can lids inside squashed cans; all other metal items should be taken to any recycling site. Aerosols, only recycle empty, and do not pierce or squash. Plastic bottles (not pots, tubs, trays or film – click here for details of those) from inside the house – please rinse, squash, put caps and tops back on. Discard pumps and trigger sprays, e.g. from soap bottles and cleaning sprays. Cardboard that is brown corrugated, grey card, greetings cards and brown envelopes – please flatten. Small bits of card can be put into larger boxes before flattening – cut or tear up large pieces. Please remember, very large pieces or should be taken to a recycling site and may not be collected at the kerbside. Aluminium foil only and not if plastic or paper backed (check with the scrunch test – scrunch up and if stays squashed together it can be recycled as foil). Food waste bin All food waste, cooked or raw. ***IMPORTANT: kerbside collection of textiles, clothes, shoes has changed. Clothes and shoes must be good enough to be worn again. Textiles – bedding, curtains, throws – are NO LONGER TAKEN. Full details here. Tie wearable clothes and shoes in a carrier bag – not a black sack – to keep them completely dry and put out on top of your recycling boxes. Recycle More (only in Mendip) Mendip now has the Recycle More service. For full details of what is collected and some top tips, click here Bright Blue Bag Plastic bottles – please rinse, squash, put caps and tops back on. Discard pumps and trigger sprays, e.g. from soap bottles and cleaning sprays. Plastic pots, tubs and trays – any colour. Tins and cans, steel or Aluminium, rinsed and squashed if possible – no need to remove labels – please place loose can lids inside squashed cans; all other metal items should be taken to any recycling site. Aluminium foil – rinsed and scrunched, not if plastic or paper backed. Aerosols – only recycle empty, and do not pierce or squash. Box 1 (usually green) Glass bottles and jars, rinsed and unbroken – no table or cook ware, put metal and plastic tops and lids back on. Cartons, such as Tetra Paks – please rinse, squash and put any caps back on. Box 2 (usually black) Paper, newspapers, magazines, leaflets, directories, white envelopes (no need to remove windows) and other white paper. Cardboard that is brown corrugated, grey card, greetings cards and brown envelopes – please flatten. Small bits of card can be put into larger boxes before flattening – cut or tear up large pieces. Please remember, very large pieces or should be taken to a recycling site and may not be collected at the kerbside. Plastic bags (not black sacks) Small household batteries, in a small tied bag. Small electrical items – no bigger than carrier bag, in an untied bag (not black sack) Food waste bin All food waste, cooked or raw. ***IMPORTANT: kerbside collection of textiles, clothes, shoes has changed. Clothes and shoes must be good enough to be worn again. Textiles – bedding, curtains, throws – are NO LONGER TAKEN. Full details here. Tie wearable clothes and shoes in a carrier bag – not a black sack – to keep them completely dry and put out on top of your recycling boxes.