Recycling for Plastic Tubes

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:

• Herb pastes
• Cake/biscuit icing tubes
• Hand creams
• Moisturisers

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

How to recycle your tubes correctly:

• Empty the tube completely – squeeze out any remaining product
• Leave the cap on – it can be recycled too
• 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.