New to Winchester info
New to Winchester - local information
WHAT DAY ARE BINS COLLECTED?
To find out what day your bins are collected , put in your postcode in the council web link below
http://www.winchester.gov.uk/bins
WHAT CAN I PUT IN THE GREEN RECYCLING BIN?
basically :
Please recycle the following:
- Newspapers / magazines, brochures and cardboard (not take-away Pizza boxes due to food debris)
- 'The Yellow Pages' & telephone directories
- Cans and tins (clean food and drink cans)
- Plastic bottles (clean and no lids, please) Must be bottle shape, any other plastic container has to go into the refuse stream.
- Domestic empty aerosols (without the skull and crossbones or the black cross symbols)
- Greetings cards
For more info ...see link below
http://www.winchester.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/recycling/
WHERE TO TAKE GLASS BOTTLES?
basically :
Sainsbury -Badger Farm:
On the LEFT as you drive in ....300 metres after you have past the petrol station )-Badger Farm
More locations see link below
http://www.winchester.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/recycling-bank-locations-map/
CONVENIENCE STORES OPEN LATE
South Winchester
One stop in Stanmore, just off Romsey road traffic lights opposite Kings School
see link for opening times
was 07:00-23:00 (2015)
http://www.onestop.co.uk/store_locator.php
Central Winchester
Tesco Express - near the rail station
see link for opening times
was 06:00-24:00 (2015)
http://www.tesco.com/store-locator/uk/
useful contacts -doctors /emergencies etc in winchester..
..see file below