If you have no scheme nearby If you do not have a scheme in your area, contact your local recycling officer and find out whether they have considered recycling plastic bottles. If there is currently no scheme in your local area, don't lose heart. More than half of all UK local authorities now recycle plastic bottles. There are now over 4,900 plastic bottle banks and over 5.4 million households can have their plastic bottles collected as part of a kerbside collection scheme. Plastics recycling is becoming more important and local councils are increasingly giving consideration to including plastics in their schemes.