Where and What to Recycle?

To find out where and what to recycle, click on SortIt, to access the Waste Aware Scotland highland recycling webpage:

or click on Highland Council webpages recycling centres and recycling points and kerbside collections. To find out where your recycled items end up, click on the Highland Council's waste journeys.

Also check out our A-Z of waste minimisation guide.

Items in the Highlands that can be recycled: bicycles, books, cans, car batteries, cardboard, construction & demolition, fluorscent tubes, fridge & freezers, garden waste, gas cylinders, glass, ink cartridges, electrical appliances, liquids & chemicals, mobile phones, paper, plastic bags, plastic bottles, scrap metal, TV &  computer monitors, textiles & shoes, tyres, yellow pages.

Did you know?

32% of average bin waste is food & garden waste which could be composted and......

20% is paper & card which could be recycled

Watch this Friend's of the Earth (scotland) movie about the impact of landfill sites and what we can do about them.

Additional local recycling facilities

Invergordon -  commerical plastic bottle Recycling Facility 

You can take household plastic drinks bottles to Invergordon. The site address is Unit 20, Cromarty Firth Industrial Estate, Invergordon IV18 0LE Tel: Graham Imrie: 07721 489940.

The yard is open daily from 08.00 - 16.30. There is no charge to leave bottles for recycling. Further details see plastics in our A-Z and where the plastics are taken.

Lochcarron, Sheildaig & Kinlochewe - community run plastic drinks bottle recycling collection point and Lochcarron also runs a cardboard recycling point

If you want to set up a plastics collection see guidelines.

Additional local recycling collections

Ross-shire Recycling, based in Evanton offers collections of cardboard, office paper and envelopes for recycling, to businesses, community groups and schools. Go to recycling businesses on the contacts page for details.