Recycling bin
Your recycling bin is collected every fortnight. You can use our bin collection day checker to find your bin dates.
Bins should be put out by 7.30am on your collection day and taken back in the same day.
What's allowed in your recycling bin
Your blue bin makes it easier to recycle a wide range of items at home including cardboard and plastic bottles. If you have an inner caddy, this should be used to keep all paper based items separated.
Please only put the correct items in your recycling bin to prevent contaminating the load. Contaminated loads will have to go to the landfill rather than for recycling.
We are no longer supplying caddies with recycling bins. If you don't have a caddy, all paper waste can be placed in the main part of your recycling bin.
In the inner caddy
- newspapers and magazines
- paper
- telephone directories (including Yellow Pages)
- envelopes
- catalogues
In the main part of the recycling bin
- all flattened white, grey and brown cardboard (for example: cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes, clean ready meal boxes, egg boxes, kitchen roll inners)
- empty and rinsed food tins, drink cans and aerosols (for example: baby milk formula tins and biscuit tins)
- rinsed and squashed plastic bottles (for example milk, water, pop, shampoo) - please replace the bottle tops after rinsing out.
- rinsed glass bottles and jars (for example: jam jars, coffee jars, sauce bottles, wine bottles, baby food jars, face cream jars, perfume bottles) - please replace the lids after rinsing out
- yogurt pots, margarine and butter tubs, plastic ice cream tubs, fruit punnets, plastic sweet/biscuit tubs, waxed drinks cartons or Tetrapaks (for example: juice cartons, soup cartons, custard cartons)
It's important to keep your recycled items dry and your bin lid closed. No wet paper or cardboard should go in the bin and you should empty all cans and bottles before recycling.
If your recycling gets wet, the paper and cardboard will stick to any glass items. This means we cannot recycle these items anymore.
Wet paper and cardboard can also stick to the machinery and clog up the system at the recycling plant. Therefore, we cannot remove wet cardboard placed next to your bin either.
What's not allowed in your recycling bin
We are unable to take the items listed below in your recycling bin, but some of the items can be recycled at other locations.
| Item | Where you can take them |
|---|---|
| Batteries | Household waste and recycling centres, supermarkets with battery recycling facilities, electrical retailers and some public buildings. Batteries can cause fires and need to be disposed of in dedicated battery recycling bins or in the correct containers at our HWRCs. |
| Windowpanes, cookware, Pyrex, windscreens, ceramics, light bulbs, printers, TVs | Household waste and recycling centres |
| Plastic bags | Supermarkets with bag recycling facilities |
| Garden waste | Garden waste bin |
| Pizza takeaway boxes and fast food packaging | Not currently recycled - please put these in your household waste bin |
| Textiles, books, spectacles | Charity shop or relevant recycling bring bank |
| General waste including food waste, nappies, plastic films, black food trays, polystyrene, wallpaper, hard plastic - kitchenware, electrical plugs, stationery | Not currently recycled - please put these in your household waste bin |
| Electricals | Household waste and recycling centres |
| Disposable vapes | Household waste and recycling centres |
| Gas bottles | Some can be taken back to the supplier or take them to the HWRC Household waste and recycling centres |
If you can't manage to move your bin
We understand that some people are not able to move their bins to the collection area. Find out about requesting an assisted bin collection.
Replacement bins
Replacement bins can be ordered at a cost of £26 per bin.
Request a repair or replacement bin
Alternatively, you can order a replacement bin by calling us on 0191 433 7000.