What can you recycle in each bin?
Yes
Cardboard
- Cardboard boxes - packaging, cereal boxes, washing powder boxes, kitchen roll and toilet tubes.
- Cards Greeting cards and post cards, as long as they have no glitter.
- Cartons - Tetrapack cartons including milk, fruit juice, and soup. Please rinse the cartons first.
- Egg boxes
- Gravy granule/Cocoa powder tubs - Tube only, not the lid.
Paper
- Paper - Fliers, leaflets, letters, post-it notes, and pamphlets
- Tickets - Bus, train, and tram tickets
- Receipts
- Wrapping paper - No glitter.
- Catalogs and telephone directories - Please remove all plastic packaging first.
- Envelopes - Including window envelopes, but not padded envelopes.
- Shredded paper - Small amounts
- Magazines
- Newspapers
No
- Plastics
- Polystyrene
- Food soiled cardboard (pizza boxes)
Yes
Glass
- Bottles - Rinsed.
- Jars - Rinsed. Metal lids can be recycled too, but not plastic ones.
Plastic
- Bottles only - If it's bottle shaped you can recycle it, if it's not, you can't. Rinse the bottles first. Lids cannot be recycled. You can recycle lids at Lush cosmetics stores.
Metal
- Cans - Food and drinks cans. Rinse first.
- Aerosols
- Foil - Pie trays, tin foil, cake and flan trays, sweet wrappers, foiled yoghurt pot lids. Remove as much food contamination as possible before putting it in the brown bin.
No
- Non bottle plastics - Yoghurt pots, food trays, butter and margerine tubs
- Bottle tops
- Cling film
- Plastic bags
- Plant pots
- Cling film
Yes
Food waste
- Cooked and raw food - Includes meat and fish, stale bread, egg shells, peelings, tea bags and coffee grounds. No packaging.
- Wooden lolly sticks
- Pet food
Garden waste
- Including leaves, grass cuttings, hedge clippings, bark, twigs, plants, windfall fruit. No large tree stumps.
Real Christmas trees
- Leave your Christmas tree next to your green bin when it is collected in January.
No
- Bin liners
- Plastic bags
- Plant pots
- Japanese knotweed
- Soil and building rubble
- Garden furniture