What can I recycle in each bin or box?

**NEW - weekly food waste collections**

Read more information on the new weekly food waste service being rolled out district-wide from January to March 2012.

✓Meat and fish - raw and cooked including bones

✓Fruit and vegetables - raw and cooked

✓All dairy products such as eggs and cheese

✓Bread, cakes and pastries

✓Rice, pasta and beans

✓Uneaten food from your plates and dishes

✓Tea bags and coffee grinds

✓Fats - solid and semi-solid but not liquid

Red box - collected weekly

✓ **NEW** Tetrapak cartons (eg juice, longlife milk)

✓Cardboard - this should be cereal box size.

✓Wrapping paper (not metallic)

✓Shredded paper (can be placed in a bag)

✓Envelopes including windows

✓Junk mail

✓Telephone directories and Yellow Pages

✓Newspapers, magazines, paper, etc

Blue box - collected weekly

✓Mixed rigid plastics, yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, fruit punnets (please do not add polystyrene or plant pots)

✓Household batteries (bagged)

✓Foil

✓Glasses (spectacles)

✓Food and drink cans

✓Glass bottles & jars

✓Aerosols

✓Plastic bottles

✓Large tins (eg seasonal chocolates)

Brown bin - Collected fortnightly

✓Garden waste

✓ Flowers and plants

✗No cardboard, envelopes or shredded paper (cardboard, envelopes and shredded paper in your red box)

✗No pet bedding

Black bin - Collected fortnightly

Your black bin will continue to be collected fortnightly on the alternate week to your brown bin collection – please check your calendar . 

Please use it to dispose of any waste you cannot recycle and make sure the bin lid is closed. Do not put out any waste alongside it; it will not be collected.