Householders in Windermere and the surrounding area have been warned about an upcoming change of recycling provision in the town.

Booths supermarket car park has hosted recycling banks for card, paper and plastic since the store was opened in 1986 – but there will be no recycling facilities there after September 30.

The company has given notice that it requires the area back for its original intention as parking space.

South Lakeland District Council has reminded people that the majority of items which could be recycled at Booths can also be recycled kerbside in people's household blue bins and boxes.

Blue bags are for:

· Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays

· Shampoo, toiletry and detergent bottles

· Food trays and fruit punnets

· Steel and aluminium cans, food tins and clean aluminium foil

· Jar and bottle tops

Paper and cardboard boxes are for:

· Newspapers and magazines

· Junk mail and leaflets,

· Greetings cards,

· White office paper

· Brochures and soft-back catalogues

·Telephone directories

·Envelopes

·Wrapping paper

·Flattened card and other food boxes

·Flattened cardboard packaging and corrugated cardboard

And the second blue box is for glass bottles and jars – not sheet glass, broken glass or lightbulbs.

Residents can request extra blue bags or boxes if required.

Residents have also been reminded that there is a recycling site in Windermere at Broad Street, and also a household waste recycling centre (HWRC) at Rothay Holme, Ambleside.

The HWRC in Rothay Holme, run by Cumbria County Council, is open seven days a week from 8am to 6pm.

The HWRC in Rothay Holme takes: wood and timber, hardcore and rubble, plastics, scrap metal, used engine oil, car batteries, garden waste, books, cardboard, mixed textiles and clothes, batteries, fluorescent tubes, large and small appliances, televisions and monitors, fridges and freezers, gas bottles, household and garden chemicals, compact discs and paint.