What goes in your bins, bags and boxes

Glass bottles and jars, brown / corrugated cardboard, small electrical items

Collected weekly

Yes please…

• Drinks bottles, sauce and food jars and any clear, green, brown or blue glass bottles and containers. Please rinse these.
• Brown/corrugated cardboard. Please remove any plastic packaging and flatten card so it fits into or under your box.
• Small electrical items, such as: kettles and irons. Please put these in a carrier bag in or next to your box.

No thanks…

• Broken glass, can be wrapped carefully and placed in your refuse bin.
• Crockery and Pyrex.
• Cans, need to go in your white sack.

Cooked or uncooked food waste

Collected weekly

Yes please…

• Meat, vegetables, cereals, bread, rice, pasta, peelings, bones and similar. Please only use the caddy liners provided, no plastic bags or packaging. If you need a new roll of liners, please order online or leave a note for the crew.

No thanks…

• Pet food or animal waste.

Plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays, food tins, drink cans, aerosols, foil and foil trays

Please note: Do not put any waste from your lateral flow test kits into your recycling. This waste should be placed in a bag and put in your bin.

Note: There are numbers on most plastic bottles that indicate their type of plastic. Our collection scheme just requires any plastic bottle, tub or tray. The number does not matter to us.

Collected weekly

Yes please …

• Empty aerosols (deodorant, hairspray and such)
• Foil and foil trays (please rinse)
• Any food tins and drinks cans. Please rinse and flatten these.
• Any plastic bottle which held a liquid. (Like milk, drinks, detergent, cleaning fluid, shampoo and such.) We also want your plastic bottle lids. Please take them off the bottle and put in the bag loose.
• Pots, tubs and trays. (Such as those used for yoghurt, margarine/butter, fruit punnets and plastic food trays.) If washing raw meat containers before recycling them:
  • Rinse carefully in warm soapy water;
  • limit any "spray" of water;
  • then thoroughly sanitise your hands and surrounding countertops.

Also, please see: Make your Metals Matter.

No thanks …

• Any other types of plastic packaging, such as: polystyrene trays, plastic film, rigid plastics (like plant pots and children's toys).

Newspapers and magazines, thin card, cartons (tetrapak)

Collected weekly

Yes please…

• Newspapers, magazines, brochures, office paper, junk mail (remove plastic wrapping).
• Phone directories, catalogues, thin card (cereal packets, food packaging sleeves, toilet roll holders and such).
• Food and drink cartons, known as Tetrapak. Please rinse and flatten these.

No thanks…

• Hardback books, brown/corrugated or thick cardboard.

Textiles

Please put any clean textiles that you would like recycled, neatly into a separate carrier bag.

Collected weekly

Yes please…

• Any unwanted textiles, such as: clothes, blankets, bedding, shoes (pairs only and tie laces together) and curtains.

No thanks…

• Duvets, cushions/pillows or any dirty items.

Household waste (not recycling)

Collected every other week

Refuse like packaging, nappies, animal waste, Hoover dust and such can be placed in your wheelie bin. (If your house is not issued with a wheelie bin, up to 4 standard bin bags.)

To check your collection days, see: Collection day finder.

Please note: Waste from lateral flow test kits should be placed in a bag and put in your bin.