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.
Your burgundy wheeled bin is for recyclable waste. All recycling must be clean, dry and loose in your bin.
Here is a list of the most common items that can be put in your burgundy recycling bin at home:
Paper and Cardboard
Yes please
Newspapers and magazines, junk mail, greetings cards, envelopes, cereal boxes, egg boxes, computer paper, leaflets and pamphlets, cardboard packaging and boxes, wrapping paper (if scrunchable) and catalogues and directories. Remember to flatten and fold down large pieces of cardboard.
No thanks
Shredded paper, paper towels and tissues.
Plastic bottles and containers
Yes please
All plastic bottles, all plastic pots and tubs e.g, yogurt and margarine pots, ice cream tubs, sweet and chocolate tubs, all colours of fruit and meat trays, moulded plastic packaging, squeezy toothpaste tubes, blister packs, plastic bottle tops (please squash your empty bottles and reattach the top).
Clean - free from food leftovers, a quick rinse will do!
Dry - please keep your bin lid closed.
Loose - no plastic bags!
Extra recycling
If you have extra recycling that will not fit inside your burgundy bin, we can remove this for you. Please leave any extra recycling loosely tied in a black sack next to your recycling bin on your scheduled collection day.
Unfortunately, we cannot take any excess recycling that is wet, or recycling that is presented outside of a loosely tied black sack. If the excess is not clearly presented next to the recycling bin on collection day, for example the sack is left in between the black and burgundy bins, then we will not be able to collect it.
