What you can put in your bins
Blue recycling bin
Please place all items loose in the bin - do not put them inside bags. Items must be clean, dry and loose. Please remove lids.
We take:
- Plastic pots, tubs, punnets and trays
- Plastic bottle lids
- Metal lids from jars and bottles
- Cardboard (for example cereal boxes, egg boxes, toilet roll & kitchen roll tubes, delivery boxes)
- Food tins, pet food tins and drinks cans (rinsed)
- Paper (including magazines, unwanted mail, greetings card, shredded paper, catalogues)
- Plastic bottles (for example, fizzy drink bottles, milk bottles, water bottles, detergent bottles, toiletry bottles - please remove lids and put them in the blue bin separately)
- Aerosol cans (please put lids in separately)
- Cardboard based food and drink cartons, for example, TetraPaks - please put the lids in separately
- Envelopes (with plastic windows removed)
- Aluminium food trays or foil
Do NOT put these in your blue bin
- Glass - to recycle please take to a recycling bank or recycling centre
- Batteries or vapes
- Food Waste
- Nappies
- Dirty Items
- Hard Plastics - for example, toys or general household items such as basins, storage boxes
- Textiles and footwear
- Flower pots and plant trays
- Garden waste
- Wood
- Polystyrene
- Soil
- Rubble
- Bagged materials
- Black plastic tubs, pots or trays
- Bubble wrap
- Plastic bags
If your bin is contaminated with other materials it will result in the bin being left unemptied. A sticker with instructions will be left on the bin.
Our Household Waste and Recycling Policy
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