We trialled a new bag for recycling household plastic and metal packaging between November 2024 and February 2025. The trial involved around 6,000 households.
Properties on the trial were given a new, reusable red bag for recycling, free of charge, to use as well as their existing recycling boxes to recycle as much as possible. Their existing recycling boxes were used to separate cardboard and paper from glass items.
The red bag trial was very successful and following the end of the trial, these households can now continue to use the red bag alongside their recycling boxes.
Red bags for North Somerset households which were not on the trial, will start being delivered from the end of March 2025. Bags will have a new guide to recycling with sorting instructions inside them.
The bag is for:
- household plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays
- metal packaging such as tins, cans, foil and aerosols