Recycling bin items

Find out what you can and cannot put in your recycling bin.

The collection point for your recycling bins is just inside your property boundary at the nearest point to the public highway or road. All wheeled bins should be placed out by 6am on the morning of collection. Where properties are unsuitable for wheeled bins, alternative arrangements can be made.

Yes please

Please keep all items placed in your recycling bin:

Clean - free from food leftovers
Loose - no plastic bags
Dry - keep recycling bin lid shut

Paper and cardboard

junk mail
cereal and egg boxes
newspapers/magazines
computer/office paper
leaflets and pamphlets
all packaging card and cardboard
wrapping paper (if scrunchable)
greetings cards
envelopes
catalogues and directories

Plastic bottles and containers

milk/drinks bottles
bathroom/laundry bottles and tubs
toothpaste tubes
moulded plastic packaging
food, fruit and ready meals pots and trays
plastic container lids

Foil

clean takeaway containers
foil trays

Glass bottles and jars

wine bottles
beer bottles
perfume bottles
jam jars
sauce jars

Metal cans and aerosols

all food / drinks cans
pet food cans
biscuit and sweet tins
empty aerosol cans

Cartons

milk cartons
fruit juice cartons
custard cartons
soup cartons

Extra recycling

If you have extra recycling that will not fit in to your burgundy bin, we can remove this for you. Leave any extra recycling loosely tied in a black sack next to the recycling bin on your scheduled collection day. After our crew has emptied your bin they will tie your empty black sack around the handle of your bin, so that you can reuse it or dispose of it in your waste bin.

Unfortunately we cannot take excess recycling that is wet, or presented outside of a loosely tied black sack. If the excess is not clearly presented next to the recycling bin, for example if it is left in between the black and burgundy bins, then we will not be able to collect it.