What goes in your recycling bin (blue)
Aerosols
Empty aerosols including personal and beauty product aerosols, cleaning products and domestic insecticides (eg empty fly-spray aerosols). Lids cannot be recycled and need to be removed.
Aluminium foil
Clean aluminium foil and foil trays (eg trays for ready meals and take away food). Excluding aluminium foil for laminate pouches (eg for cat and dog food).
Cans and tins
Clean steel and aluminium food and drink cans and tins and pet food cans.
Cardboard
Cardboard egg boxes, cardboard tubes (eg kitchen and toilet roll tubes), food packaging card (including the type with plastic windows), cardboard packaging and carrier trays (eg trays for fruit and vegetables).
Cartons
Waxed food and drink cartons including Tetra Pak cartons for milk, juices, smoothies and soups. Lids cannot be recycled and need to be removed.
Paper
Newspapers, magazines, white and coloured paper, greetings cards, envelopes (including window type, excluding bubble wrap), clean paper bags, telephone directories, yellow pages, store directories, catalogues, junk mail, clean wrapping paper and shredded paper (not bagged but please put in loosely. Shredded paper is also brilliant in compost bins, as animal bedding and in wood burners. Please only shred what is necessary).
Plastic bottles
Plastic food and drink bottles, personal care products, household cleaning products, household cooking and food oil bottles, trigger spray bottles, pump spray bottles, roller-ball bottles, and empty medication/pill bottles. Lids need to be left on except for trigger and spray bottles as these cannot be recycled.
Plastic food tubs, food pots and food trays
Clean rigid plastic food containers including yogurt pots, margarine tubs, ice cream tubs, fruit punnets, plastic trays for fruits and vegetables and raw and cooked meat and fish, pots for custards, creams, fresh sauces and gravies, and ready meal plastic containers. Plastic lids can be left on. Cellophane lids and cling film cannot be recycled and are to be removed.
Please use the communal glass bin (if exists) for:
- Glass bottles and jars. Lids can be left on.
