Is your green bin full? Don’t panic – you can leave extra recycling out beside the bin in your normal recycling week! Residents across the Vale of White Horse are being reminded that if they have more recycling than they can fit into their green wheelie bin, they can leave it out beside the bin in a box or open bag on their usual recycling week. The call comes after councillors approved a plan to remove the mixed recycling banks from all of the district council’s bring bank points across the Vale. The green mixed recycling bins had become a magnet for fly-tipping, meaning much of the recycling in the bins became contaminated and had to be sent to landfill. The council reviewed comments by residents on the plan and made the decision in June to go ahead and remove the bins. It is just the green mixed-recycling banks that are being removed; the charity containers for items such as clothes, shoes and CDs will remain in place. The council’s recycling banks for small electrical items will also remain available for use. Since removing the bins from a few sites in the Vale and neighbouring South Oxfordshire earlier in the year, the fly-tipping at these locations has stopped and there has been no increase in fly-tipping elsewhere. Cllr Reg Waite, cabinet member for waste at the Vale, said: “Our residents are champion recyclers and they can continue to recycle even if their green bin is full! This means we don’t need the mixed-recycling banks which have become something of a nuisance due to fly-tipping, so we have decided to remove them. It has already proved effective at a couple of sites, so we are very confident this will solve the fly-tipping problem. I’d also like to remind everybody that they can leave their used batteries out for recycling in a small clear plastic bag on top of their green bin in their normal recycling week.” The plan to remove the bins has been approved subject to call-in by the council’s scrutiny committee.