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What goes in my bins (revised table)

  • Check materials for bins and boxes

    Icon blue bin

    Recycling bin

    • Aerosol cans
    • Aluminium foil (clean)
    • Biscuit tins
    • Cardboard food boxes
    • Cartons (including TetraPak)
    • Dry and clean cardboard
    • Empty plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays
    • Food tins, drinks tins and cans
    • Magazines or catalogues
    • Paper
    • Soft back books
    • Toilet roll tubes
    Icon black bin

    General waste bin

    For waste that you can't recycle including:

    • Blister packs for tablets
    • Broken glass
    • Bubble wrap
    • Cellophane wrapping
    • Crisp bags and containers
    • Nappies and sanitary waste
    • Plastic cutlery
    • Styrofoam
    • Takeaway drink containers
    Icon brown bin

    Compost bin

    • Bones
    • Bottle corks
    • Cold ashes
    • Eggshells
    • Food waste
    • Fruit and vegetable peelings
    • Grass cuttings
    • Hedge trimmings
    • Leaves, twigs and small branches
    • Paper napkins
    • Plants and flowers
    • Shredded paper
    • Takeaway pizza boxes (torn up)
    • Teabags and coffee grounds
    • Weeds
    • Wet paper and wet cardboard
    Icon black recycling box

    Black or red recycling boxes*

    Option one

    • Aerosol cans
    • Clean aluminium foil
    • Food and drink cans
    • Food and drink cartons (for example, milk or juice)
    • Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays

    Option two

    • Cardboard
    • Paper (no tissues)

    Option three

    • Glass bottles and jars

    Textiles - leave in a tied bag next to your recycling boxes.

    What you can't put in your recycling boxes:

    • Batteries
    • Hand tools
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    Wheelie boxes

    Top box

    • Cardboard
    • Paper (no tissues)

    Middle box

    • Aerosol cans
    • Clean aluminium foil
    • Food and drink cans
    • Food and drink cartons
    • Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays

    Bottom box

    • Glass bottles and jars

    Textiles - leave in a tied bag and place into any of your wheelie boxes.

    What you can't put in your wheelie boxes:

    • Batteries
    • Hand tools
    Icon green food waste bin

    Green food waste bin

    • Bread, cakes and pastries 
    • Fruit and veg 
    • Meat, fish and cheese 
    • Potato and vegetable peelings 
    • Rice, beans and pasta
    • Teabags and coffee grounds
    • Any other leftover food
    Icon black recycling box

    Glass recycling box

    • Glass bottles and jars

    *If you only have one or two boxes please rotate the materials you present each week, for example put out paper and cardboard one week, and glass the next week.

    If you have more recycling than will fit into your recycling boxes, you can leave a single additional tied bag containing one type of item next to your recycling boxes and we will collect it with the rest of your recycling.

    To order additional recycling boxes, go to order a bin.

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