What goes in my recycling wheelie bins?

Your white-lidded bin is for plastic packaging, glass, cans and cartons. Your blue-lidded bin is for clean paper and card.

If you need any replacement bins, get in touch.

No additional rubbish and recycling left at the side of your bins will be collected.

Put all recycling in the bin loose. Do not put items inside plastic bags, as these will not be collected.

Recycling bins with a white lid

This wheelie bin is used for plastic packaging, glass, cans and cartons. plastic bottles, pots, tubs and plastic trays. Please give your recycling a quick rinse when you do the washing up.

We’ll collect:

glass bottles and jars (metal lids can also be recycled, but separately)
plastic bottles
plastic food containers like yoghurt pots, spread tubs and trays that hold meat, fruit or ready meals
food and drink cartons and cans
foil (scrunched into a ball) and foil food trays
plastic tubes eg toothpaste, icing tubes
metal tubes eg tomato puree tubes
plastic tubs or metal tins from sweets and cakes

We will not collect:

Please do not put the following items in your white lid bin as they cannot be recycled:

mirrors or sheet glass (see dangerous waste)
lightbulbs
glass cookware (like Pyrex) or drinking glasses
pet food pouches
polystyrene
nappies
other household plastics like plant pots, film plastics, crisp packets or plastic bags
plastics carrier bags and black sacks
batteries and any electronic or electrical items

Putting any of these items in with your recycling makes it more difficult and expensive for us to sort and could mean we don’t collect your recycling. Please put them into your general waste bin or take them to the reuse and recycling centres for recycling or disposal. Batteries, electrical items and lightbulbs should never be placed into your general waste bin.

Recycling bins with a blue lid

This wheelie bin is used for paper and cardboard.

We’ll collect:

newspapers and magazines
letters, envelopes and junk mail (whole or shredded)
cereal boxes and other dry food and medicine packaging
paper bags
cardboard boxes (flattened)

We will not collect:

Please do not put the following items in your blue lid bin as they cannot be recycled:

food or drink cartons
plastics (including bags), glass or foil
foam cups, or used paper cups, plates and straws
foil/glittery wrapping paper or gift bags
plastics carrier bags and black sacks

Your item not listed?

You should put items, not on the recyclable list into the general rubbish green wheeled bin for collection. Or better still, taken to a reuse and recycling centre for safer disposal. You can always make use of a local recycling bank if you’ve had a clear-out or want to recycle something we don’t collect.