You must mix your recycling together in a wheeled bin or clear recycling bags. If you do not have a wheeled bin yet, please carry on using clear bags.
For bin collections, put recycling in your bin loose – don’t use any bags. This way you will get more in it.
Please wash and squash any recycling you put in your bin – it will keep your bins cleaner. Place any extra flattened cardboard next to your bin if it’s full. No extra recycling in bags.
We will collect:
Tins and cans:
- Metal cans and tins (tinned food and drink)
- Metal lids
- Foil
- Aerosol cans
- Biscuit tins
- Baby milk tins
Plastic bottles:
- Plastic milk bottles
- Fizzy drink bottles
- Water bottles
- Shampoo bottles
- Bottles from household cleaning products
- Bleach bottles
Plastic pots:
- Yoghurt pots
- Cream pots
- Soup pots
- Salad pots
Plastic tubs:
- Margarine tubs
- Ice cream tubs
Plastic trays:
- Meat trays
- Fruit trays or punnets
- Biscuit trays
Plastic bags:
- Carrier bags
- Bread bags
- Freezer bags
- Fruit and vegetable bags
- Multi-pack crisp bags and packets
- Salad and sandwich bags
Plastic film and wrapping:
- Plastic nets & labels (e.g. for citrus fruits)
- Plastic film from magazines and newspapers
- Wrapping from food products
- Wrapping around multi-packs of cans
- Wrapping around toilet rolls
- Cling film
- Plastic cereal liners
- Plastic film from ready meals
- Tetra-Paks Pringle and similar crisp tubes
Other items:
- Plastic plant pots
- Bubble wrap
- Clean Cat and Dog Food Pouches
- Worn out white garden sacks
- Broken or unusable food recycling caddy (rinse first)
- Broken or unusable recycling box (rinse first)
- Paper (including shredded paper)
- Plain and coloured wrapping paper
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Catalogues
- Brochures
- Comics
- Junk mail
- Yellow page/directories
- Cereal packets
- Tea packets
- Cardboard boxes, flattened*
- Food boxes (not foil backed or waxed)
- Egg boxes brown paper (in card bag)
- Wrapping paper (paper-based in card bag)
- Brown envelopes
- Washing powder boxes
- Dishwasher tablet boxes
- Cleaning product boxes
- Kitchen/toilet cardboard tube
- Greeting cards
- Cigarette packets (with the foil removed)
- Envelopes (remove plastic window if applicable)
Items we do not collect
- Pesticide or chemical bottles
- Tassimo pods
- Blister packs: Packaging for tablets
- Hard plastics: Children's toys
- Milk crates
- Polystyrene, including: Polystyrene food trays (e.g. take-away boxes)
- Expanded polystyrene packaging (e.g. Loosefill polystyrene used for padding in packaging)
- Electronic items
- Plastic strapping or rope (e.g. polyrope, lock lashing straps)
- Video/cassette tapes or CD/DVD cases
- Washing up bowls
- Large items such as garden furniture
- Used tissue
- Used kitchen roll
- Wallpaper
- Waxed paper
- Waxed card
- Wrapping paper (foil or plastic)
- PE coated paper and cardboard
- Cardboard contaminated with leftover food such as greasy pizza boxes
- Knives
- Badly soiled metal items
- General non-recyclable household waste
- Garden furniture