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What can I recycle in each bin or box?

Food bin and caddy

**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
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
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
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
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.


Clothes, shoes and textiles

From Monday 16 January, textiles will be collected each week with your other recyclables. Please place old clothes, shoes and textiles into bags, tie them up and present with your boxes. Please note that if you have a charity bag for collection and it is placed beside your boxes, the recycling crews will collect it. Please place these bags in a different place if they are meant for the charities.

 

Tips for recycling

Please put your recycling boxes out for collection every week. If you don't have a recycling box or need an additional one, please give us a call. If you have more garden waste than will fit in your brown bin, either take it to the household waste recycling centre or consider buying a home compost bin. Please remember to wash and squash your cans.

 

Other waste services

We provide a chargeable bulky waste collection service. Please contact us to arrange a collection. If you are unable to move your bins or boxes due to mobility problems, please give us a call as you may qualify for a pull out and return service. If you have an excess of waste or recycling please use your nearest household waste recycling centre (Tip).

 

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