A quick guide!

The Cherwell Recycling page, with its Waste Wizard, is really useful for finding out how to recycle things in our district that can’t go out with the regular kerbside collections.

Information leaflets on waste and recycling services are available at Exeter Hall (Oxford Road, OX5 1AB) and the Kidlington Library (23 Oxford Rd, Kidlington OX5 2BP).

The Cherwell District Council collect vapes, batteries and small electrical items with the other waste and recycling collections. See here for instructions. And look into the Podback Scheme if you use coffee (or tea or hot chocolate pods) regularly at home.

The following additional facilities are available in Kidlington.

Please note, these are constantly changing and we struggle to keep up! Please notify us (kidlingtonecogroup@gmail.com) if you spot any errors or omissions, thank you!

Recycling facilities at the Methodist Church (Oxford Rd, OX5 2BP):

• Please see their website here for up-to-date information on what is being collected.

Kidlington Baptist Church (High St, OX5 2DS) – box at back of Sanctuary so accessible when the church is open for services:

• Printer cartridges (raises money for Tearfund)

Collection bins in Tesco’s (71 High St, OX5 2DN) and Sainsbury’s (289 Oxford Rd, OX5 2PE):

• Soft plastic wrappings
• Make-up, razors, coathangers and more may be collected in Sainsbury’s. Please check in store for up-to-date facilities.

Morgan Optometry (106A Oxford Rd, OX5 1BL):

• Spectacles (they collect them for prescription in Africa)

Collection points in Curtis Place car park (Forester’s Way, Kidlington OX5 2PQ) and Exeter Hall car par (Oxford Rd, Kidlington OX5 1AB):

• Clothing, shoes & textiles;

And don’t forget: before you even get to the point of recycling – don’t forget Kidlington’s Repair Cafe, and our friend and partner, Waste Innovation Station Headquarters (WISH), which is a local project that is devoted to facilitating a local circular economy and helping us to repair, reuse, and repurpose (not to mention other verbs beginning with ‘r’ that I’ve forgotten!) everyday items to save them from landfill.

See also our guide on how to reduce, reuse, repair and repurpose locally.