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