What can I recycle and how?

Please see below details of what you can recycle and how to use your kerbside collection services.

Blue Box

All glass bottles and jars are accepted - blue, green, brown and clear. Once your glass bottle or jar is empty, remove any bottle tops, lids or corks and give it a rinse.

It is not necessary to remove labels, as these will be burned off when the glass is melted down. Excess glass can be put in a cardboard box.

Clear Recycling Sack

Plastic milk bottles, drinks bottles, detergent bottles, shampoo and conditioner bottles including lids / tops.

Rigid food containers, margarine tubs, ice cream tubs, yoghurt pots and plastic bags. Please ensure containers are empty and rinsed.

All drinks cans and rinsed food cans. All cardboard including boxes, tubes and greeting cards.

Newspapers, catalogues, comics, phone directories, stationery, magazines, brochures, junk mail and household papers. All empty aerosols and clean foil/foil containers.

You can now recycle clean foil and spent aerosol canisters via your clear recycling sacks, for details go to the Aerosols and Foil page.

Green Lidded Wheelie Bin

The following items can be collected in your green lidded wheelie bin. Collections take place weekly.

Food Waste

All cooked and uncooked food waste including:

Bread, cakes, biscuits and pastries
Dairy products such as cheese
Coffee ground and teabags
Fruit and vegetables
Leftover food from your dinner plate and dishes
Meat and fish (including bones)

Garden Waste

Branches
Cuttings
Dead Flowers
Grass and leaves
Houseplants
Twigs
Weeds
Animal waste and bedding from herbivores

Newspaper can be used to wrap food waste or alternatively use the biodegradable bags with the correct logo. Please do not place any other type of plastic bags in your new wheelie bin as this will cause contamination.

Real Christmas Tree Recycling

Black Wheelie Bin

The black wheelie bin is for all your non-recyclable household rubbish.

No additional rubbish other than the content of your wheeled bin will be collected, with the exception of polystyrene packaging which can be put out alongside your wheeled bin for collection.

When placing your wheelie bins out for collection please ensure that the handles are facing the road and / or your recycling is in a visible position just inside the boundary of your property.

Put your recycling containers at the boundary of you property by 7am on your collection day at the latest but no earlier than the evening before.

Can it be Recycled?

Find out what you can recycle and where using the recyclenow widget below.

More information? Call 01992 564608