Items should be rinsed clean and squashed, then placed loose (not bagged) in your blue lid recycling bin.
Home Recycling and rubbish Your bin collections What goes in my bin? Blue-lid recycling bin
What goes in my bins?
- What goes in my bin?
- Black rubbish bin
- Blue-lid recycling bin
- Green waste bin
Blue-lid recycling bin
Mixed glass bottles and jars
Yes
Glass bottles and jars of all colours
No
Broken glass, pyrex, light bulbs, mirrors, and flat glass
Paper and cardboard
Yes
Newspapers, magazines, paper, cardboard (folded flat), junk mail, brochures, envelopes and telephone directories including yellow pages
All types of cardboard including cereal boxes
No
Polystyrene foam packaging, used kitchen paper, baby/face/makeup wipes or nappies
Takeaway pizza boxes or any takeaway food containers or bags, even though they may be paper or cardboard
Cartons
Yes
All cartons including soft drinks, fruit juice and soup (squash or fold flat)
No
Polystyrene
Food tins and drink cans
Yes
All steel and aluminium food and drink cans, biscuit or sweet tins (rinse and squash where possible)
No
Cutlery or any other metal objects
Household plastic packaging
Yes
Rigid plastic food containers like yoghurt pots and ice cream tubs
Plastic bottles like drinks bottles, shampoo bottles, washing up liquid bottles, bleach bottles, and milk bottles (rinse and squash)
No
Hard plastic like toys, beakers etc., plastic film, black bags, cling film, food wrapping
Carrier bags or polystyrene foam packaging