What goes in which bin?
Find out what goes in each bin.
All items should be placed loose inside the blue bin and green box. Textiles should be presented, on recycling week, next to your bin or box in a tied clear or translucent bag so that crews can easily identify contents.
Grey Bin
Yes
- Non recyclable waste
- Plastic packaging
- Food waste
No
- Paint
- Oil
- Building Waste
Blue Bin
Yes
- Clean plastic pots, tubs and trays
- Plastic bottles
- Glass bottles
- Glass jars
- Food cans
- Drinks cans
- Aerosols
- Clean tin foil
No
- Plastic bags
- Paint
- Oil
- Building waste
Blue bins with plastic bags in will not be collected
Green box
Yes
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Cardboard packaging
- Brown card
- Directories
- Catalogues
- Junk mail
- Envelopes
No
- Tetrapaks
- Wallpaper
Brown Bin (subscription service only)
Subscribe to Garden Waste service
Yes
- Grass cuttings
- Hedge cuttings
- Prunings
- Dead flowers
- House plants
- Cut flowers
- Leaves
- Weeds
No
- Food waste
- Cardboard
- Soil
- Building waste