Guernsey's Waste Strategy encourages islanders to reduce waste, and provides services and facilities that make it easy to reuse and recycle.
Many unwanted household items that are still in good condition can be given a new lease of life by someone else. Reusing these items stops them ending up as waste.
Recycling is the next best option, as it ensures we take maximum advantage of materials that we cannot either reuse or prevent becoming wasting in the first place. It has many benefits, including saving energy.
For example, to make an aluminium can from recycled material uses 95% less energy than to manufacturer it from raw material. The energy saved from recycling just one glass bottle would power a TV for 1½ hours.
Similarly, recycling also reduces demand for finite natural resources, and the energy needed to mine or extract raw materials where they naturally occur, and transport them around the world for processing.
The pages in this section give details of the various facilities and services that are provided to help households to reduce their waste and recycle as much as possible. These range from handy tips to help avoid unnecessary food waste - which could save the average household as much as £600 a year - to kerbside collection of most common household recyclable items.
For general information, including what can be recycled and where, check out the links on this page. Please also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the latest updates and news.
If you are small business, and produce a similar amount of waste as a household, then you may be able to opt in to using the household waste and recycling collections and other services. Please contact us for more details.
For larger companies, you will need to make arrangements with a commercial waste contractors for managing your waste and recycling.
We value feedback from our customers and are keen to know how we can improve our services. If you would like to provide feedback to us, both positive and constructive, then please contact us via the details provided here. We also conduct surveys throughout the year at key Island events and at our waste and recycling sites, offering the facility to complete these surveys online or in paper form.
