Know your bins

✅ Plastic bottles

✅ Plastic food trays

✅ Plastic containers

✅ Paper

✅ Cardboard

✅ Magazines

✅ Envelopes (including window envelopes)

✅ Newspapers

✅ Books, catalogues and journals

✅ Cardboard juice cartons e.g. Tetra Pak

✅ Aluminium and steel cans

✅ Aluminium foil

❌ Cling film

❌ Foil lined sweet wrappers and crisp packets

❌ Paint tins

❌ Other types of metal e.g. brass, copper

❌ Glass bottles and jars

❌ Disposable hot drinks cups

❌ Plastic coated cardboard e.g sandwich boxes

❌ Paper towels

❌ Bioplastics

❌ Food and drink pouches

❌ Film lids from food trays

❌ Plastic freezer bags

❌ Plastic bags

❌ Packaging films

✅ Paper towels

✅ Polystyrene

✅ Food waste (if no food waste bin available)

✅ Coffee grounds and tea bags (if no food waste bin available)

✅ Containers with food residues

✅ Disposable hot drinks cups

✅ Plastic coated cardboard e.g sandwich boxes

✅ Paper towels

✅ Glitter cards/wrapping paper

✅ Foil lined sweet wrappers and crisp packets

✅ Containers with food residues

✅ Padded envelopes

✅ Plastic bags

✅ Cling film

❌ Aerosols and gas canisters

❌ Paint, varnish and glue

❌ Printer cartridges

❌ Electrical equipment

❌ Batteries

❌ Hard and rigid plastics (window frames, pipes, drums)

❌ Hazardous waste (paint tins or bleach bottles)

✅ Empty, rinsed clear, brown and green glass bottles and jars (labels do not need to be removed)

✅ Winchester glass bottles (must be rinsed three times, and air-dried before disposal)

❌ Pyrex

❌ Water jugs

❌ Drinking glasses

❌ Ceramic items (e.g. plates, mugs)

❌ Window panes

❌ Spectacles 

✅ Food

✅ Peelings  

✅ Teabags

✅ Coffee grounds

✅ Egg shells                    

✅ Plate scrapings

❌ Compostable packaging

❌ Compostable disposable drinks cups

❌ Biodegradable plastics

❌ Empty tins and cans

❌ Liquids

❌ Cutlery and crockery

❌ Paper towels and napkins

❌ Empty food containers