| Non-recyclable household waste (grey or red lid) |
Food waste (if you don't compost), plastic bags and wrap, packing foam and foam meat trays, nappies, sawdust (must be bagged) |
Car batteries, paints and chemicals, soil and rocks, building materials, gas bottles, hot ash, recyclables |
You can drop off chemical waste at our regular Chemical CleanOuts. You can also recycle TVs and computers at Kimbriki or Sita sites. |
| Paper recycling (blue lid) |
Newspapers and magazines, office paper and envelopes (including window faced), telephone books, clean cardboard such as egg and milk cartons and clean pizza boxes |
Nappies, food-soiled paper and cardboard, waxed cardboard, plastic bags |
Flatten, crush or tear up boxes, and ensure you remove plastic wrap from junk mail and newspapers. Plastic bags can be recycled at some supermarkets – check with yours. |
| Mixed recycling (yellow lid) |
Plastic bottles and containers from the kitchen, bathroom and laundry, steel and aluminium cans (including aerosols), empty dry paint tins, glass bottles and jars, foil-lined milk and juice cartons |
Window or mirror glass, plastic toys, crockery, porcelain, ceramics, plastic bags and wrap, packing foam, foam food trays, paint tins containing paint |
Rinse out bottles, cans and jars; remove tops and lids from bottles and jars; and flatten containers. Plastic bags and packets can be recycled at some supermarkets – check with yours. |
| Greenwaste (green) |
Leaf litter, grass, weeds, small branches up to 150mm in diameter and 600mm in length, bush and hedge trimmings |
Food scraps, soil, rocks, treated timber, large branches, building materials, plastic, garden tools, flower pots, soiled paper |
Need help disposing of prunings? Check out our mobile chipping service. You even get to keep the mulch for reuse on your garden!
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