WEST BERKS COUNCIL Waste and recycling updates - April

19/04/2026

BELOW IS AN UPDATE ON RECYCLING FROM WEST BERKS COUNCIL

We thought we would share a few updates and upcoming focus areas from the Waste and Recycling Team that may be useful for your residents.

Each month, we focus our communications and engagement on a small number of waste and recycling topics to help keep messages clear and consistent. If you have capacity through a parish newsletter, website, or social media channels, it would be great if you could help us share these messages locally.

Plastic tube recycling

West Berkshire Council, in partnership with Veolia, is pleased to announce a new addition to its kerbside recycling service: plastic tubes can now be recycled from home as part of your regular collection.

 This includes all toothpaste tubes both hard and flexible, cosmetic tubes and food tubes.

 Some other examples include

  1. Herb pastes
  2. Cake/biscuit icing tubes
  3. Hand creams
  4. Moisturisers

If it is hard or soft plastic and tube shaped, squeeze it, recycle it!

How to recycle your tubes correctly:

  1. Empty the tube completely – squeeze out any remaining product.
  2. Leave the cap on – it can be recycled too.
  3. Keep tubes flat, not rolled – rolling makes them smaller and harder to recover for recycling.

 Simply place your plastic tubes in the same container used to collect your plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, aerosols and tins/cans.

 More information can be found here: www.westberks.gov.uk/article/45537/West-Berkshire-Council-launches-kerbside-recycling-for-plastic-tubes

 

Real Nappy Week - Monday 27 April to Sunday 3 May
April also includes Real Nappy Week, which is an opportunity to promote reusable nappy options. Using real nappies can significantly reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste produced by families and can also save money over time. Information on real nappy schemes and local support is available on our website.

 For more information on our FREE trial packs visit: westberks.gov.uk/realnappiesapply

 For more information on our £30 real nappy cash back scheme visit:

westberks.gov.uk/nappies

 If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

 Thank you, as always, for your support in helping us share waste and recycling messages with residents.

 Best wishes,

 

Waste Management

West Berkshire Council