Recycling Incentives

Whilst the kerbside recycling system is able to take your used plastic and glass bottles and containers, and unwanted textiles and shoes, there are also incentives to recycle them with local High Street retailers. Here is a selection of some of the rewards available locally. Please check Terms and Conditions before travelling.

✔Schuh: Sell Your Soles scheme offers £5 off a £25+ spend when you bring any old shoes back to the store.

✔Marks & Spencer: M&S will provide a £5 off a £35+ spend voucher. The voucher can be obtained when donating items to Oxfam. One item of clothing or soft furnishing in your donation needs to be from M&S.

✔H&M - Hand your bag of unwanted clothes and textiles in to the local H&M store and receive a voucher for £5 off a 25 spend. ✔Lush - Return any full size Lush packaging back to the shop for 50p off your next purchase, or return five of their black pots for a fresh face mask.

✔Boots – Receive 500 points worth £5 when you recycle five items and spend more than £10. You will need to register online, log the products you wish to recycle and await approval before putting them in the recycling bin at a participating boots store. Finally you can show the online £5 code at the till when you spend £10+.

✔John Lewis – Get £5 off £20 spend when you recycle five items. 'My John Lewis' card members can bring in five cosmetic items for recycling to any John Lewis beauty counter to get £5 off a £20+ spend there and then. Any brand's packaging can be brought for recycling – except for glass nail polish, perfume bottles or aerosols (which you can recycle at home). A similar scheme exists for clothing. See John Lewis for full information on its 'Beautycycle' and 'Fashioncycle' schemes.

✔L'Occitane – Receive 10% off one new full-size product on the day you return your empties from any brand in a standalone L'Occitane store. See full T&Cs for participating stores and what's accepted.

✔reGain app: You can receive up to 25% off brands such as Superdry and New Balance (see full list), when you donate 10+ items to one of 331 participating Red Cross Charity shops. Clothes, including underwear, and shoes are accepted – but bedding, towels, and curtains aren't.