What Can I Recycle and How?

Wheelie Bin

Non-recyclable household rubbish including kitchen waste: to minimise smells, wrap food waste securely.

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.

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.

Green Lidded Wheelie Bin

All the following items can be collected in the new wheelie bin

Food waste - all cooked and uncooked food waste

• Bread, cakes, biscuits and pastries
• Dairy product 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

Collections take place weekly

When placing your wheeled bin 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 by 7am at the latest but no earlier than the evening before.

Please note that Recycling Sites around the District can also take all of the above - Click here for more information.

More information? Call 01992 564608

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