While you’re staying at Serenity 22 Barend, we would very much appreciate you separating your waste into the 3 bins and 1 box outside the lodge so that it can be recycled.
Bin with White Label
- General waste, including all food waste
Bin with Red Label
Yes
Plastics (rinsed and squashed)
✅ Food and drinks bottles
✅ Toiletry bottles
✅ Tablet and medicine bottles
✅ Pots, tubs and trays (all colours)
✅ Yoghurt pots and margarine tubs
✅ Plastic lids and tops
Metals (empty and rinsed)
✅ Tins
✅ Drinks cans
✅ Empty aerosols
✅ Foil trays
✅ Clean aluminium foil
✅ Metal lids and caps
Cartons (rinsed and squashed)
✅ Food and drink cartons
No
❌ Glass
❌ Plastic bags (also please don’t bag recycling)
❌ Plastic liners or cling film
❌ Bubble wrap
❌ Polystyrene
❌ Biscuit or sweet wrappers
❌ Crisp bags
❌ Plastic cups or straws
❌ Pet food pouches
❌ Oil and paint cans
❌ Electrical items
❌ Batteries or wire
❌ Cutlery
❌ Gas bottles
❌ Metal pots, pans or trays
Please rinse plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, food tins, drinks cans and cartons. Only clean items can be recycled and this is also so that insects and vermin aren’t attracted to the bins.
Please squash plastic bottles and drinks cartons – this helps to save space in the bin. You can also recycle the lids and tops.
Bin with Blue Label
Yes
Paper
✅ Newspapers and magazines
✅ Catalogues and directories
✅ Letters and junk mail
✅ Envelopes (including those with windows)
✅ Office and shredded paper
✅ Paperback books (or donate to charity if possible)
Card and cardboard
✅ Cereal boxes
✅ Cardboard packaging
✅ Corrugated cardboard boxes
✅ Glitter free greetings cards
✅ Toilet and kitchen roll tubes
✅ Cardboard egg boxes
Remove packing tape from cardboard boxes and plastic covers from magazines before recycling them please. However, you don’t need to remove any staples.
No
❌ Tissues or napkins
❌ Padded envelopes (e.g. jiffy bags)
❌ Kitchen towels
❌ Wet paper or cardboard
❌ Wallpaper
❌ Paper or cardboard contaminated with food – for example, takeaway pizza boxes
❌ Disposable drinks cups or straws
❌ Hardback books (or donate to charity if possible)
❌ Sweet bags or papers
Black Box for Glass
A trial of collecting clean, rinsed glass in 2 containers on the site has recently been initiated (Feb 2023).
We would very much appreciate it if you could…
- please rinse and collect all glass bottles/jars/glass containers in the black box outside the lodge and then
- deposit them in the nearest glass collection container opposite Lodge No 11 (there’s another opposite lodges 51/52) before your departure.
- Please return the empty black box to outside the lodge.
Please take care to avoid depositing during unsociable hours and thank you for your help and for being considerate ?
Yes
✅ Food and drink glass bottles and jars (no lids etc.)
✅ Condiment glass bottles and jars (no lids etc.)
✅ Toiletry and perfume glass bottles
Please rinse glass bottles and jars before placing them in the box, so that insects and vermin aren’t attracted to the bins. This also benefits the recycling process.
No
❌ Metal tops, lids or corks
❌ Crockery, ceramics or Pyrex®️
❌ Windows or mirrors
❌ Drinking glasses
❌ Light bulbs
Plastic and metal lids can be recycled in the red labelled bin.
For more information on recycling in Dumfries & Galloway see: www.dumgal.gov.uk/wasterecycling
We feel that it’s important to look after the area and be environmentally conscious, so we really appreciate your help with this. Please also see our posts about Barend Loch and Green Energy. We also welcome any suggestions you have.
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