A
- Aerosols including deodorant and body spray, hairspray, air freshener and polish – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Aluminium cans – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Aluminium foil and foil trays – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Anti-freeze - Local recycling centre
- Appliances - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Asbestos - Local recycling centre
- Ash from BBQs including disposable BBQs - Local recycling centre
B
- Baking tray / tin - Local recycling centre
- Batteries – Some shops will accept them or your local recycling centre
- Bicycles - Local recycling centre, bulky waste collection or check with your local charity shops.
- Board games – Check with your local charity shops.
- Books – Check with your local charity shops.
- Boots - Textile banks or check with your local charity shops.
- Bottles and jars – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Branches and twigs – Brown recycling wheelie bin
- Bread wrappers / bags – Green general waste bin
- Bric-a-brac - Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Bricks - Inert Waste
- Brushes, rollers and mops - Local recycling centre
- Building material - Inert Waste
- Bubble wrap – Green general waste bin
- Buttons - Check with your local charity shops.
C
- Cans (food and drink cans) – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Car batteries - Local recycling centre
- Carbon monoxide monitor - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Cardboard – Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Carpets and rugs - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Cartons (e.g. Tetrapaks) including UHT, soya and goat's milk, fruit juice and sauces - Local recycling centre
- Carrier bags - Many supermarkets now have recycling points for carrier bags or green general waste bin
- Cassettes – Green general waste bin
- Catalogues – Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Cat litter – Green general waste bin
- CDs - Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Chipboard – Inert Waste
- Children’s toys – Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Christmas and birthday cards – Grey recycling wheelie bin. Foil and plastic types to be placed in your green general waste bin.
- Christmas trees - Local recycling centre, bulky waste collection or brown recycling wheelie bin if it is in small pieces.
- Clingfilm – Green general waste bin
- Clocks and watches – Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Clothing, textiles and shoes - Textile banks or check with your local charity shops.
- Coat hangers – Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Coffee grounds –Composted or green general waste bin.
- Cooking pans, trays and utensils - Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops if they are clean and in good condition.
- Cooking oil - Local recycling centre
- Computers and PCs - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Cookers - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Crockery and cutlery – Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Crisp packets - Terracycle or green general waste bin.
- Curtains - Textile banks or check with your local charity shops.
D
- Directories - Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Dishwashers - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Disposable nappies – Green general waste bin, they cannot be recycled. Try reusable nappies.
- DIY waste - Inert Waste
- Domestic appliances - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Drinks cans – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Drinks cartons - Local recycling centre
- DVDs - Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- DVD players - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
E
- Egg boxes (plastic) – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Egg boxed (cardboard) - Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Eggshells – Composted or green general waste bin
- Electrical goods - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Energy saving light bulbs - Local recycling centre
- Engine oil - Local recycling centre
- Envelopes - Grey recycling wheelie bin
F
- Fat / Oil for cooking – Local recycling centre
- Flowers and plants (without soil) – Composted or brown recycling wheelie bin
- Foil - kitchen and aluminium –Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Food waste – Green general waste bin
- Fridges and freezers - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Frozen food bags – Green general waste bin
- Furniture - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
G
- Garden chemicals - Local recycling centre
- Garden waste – Brown recycling wheelie bin or composted
- Gift wrap – if paper, grey recycling wheelie bin
- Glasses and spectacles – Check with your opticians.
- Glass bottles from health and medical products - Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Glass baby food jars - Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Glass coffee jars - Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Glass malted drink or other beverage jars - Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Glass spice and herb jars - Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Glasses (drinking glasses) – If reusable, check with your local charity shops.
- Glue – Local recycling centre
- Grass cuttings – Brown recycling wheelie bin or composted.
- Guttering - Local recycling centre
H
- Hairdryers - Local recycling centre
- Healthcare waste – Non-contagious waste such as dressings, incontinence pads or dialysis waste can be double bagged and placed in your green general waste bin. Any sharps or needles should be returned to your GP.
- Hedge Clippings – Brown recycling wheelie bin
I
- Irons - Local recycling centre
J
- Jewellery – Check with your local charity shops.
- Jiffy bags – Green general waste bin.
- Junk mail - Grey recycling wheelie bin
K
- Kitchen waste – Green general waste bin
- Kitchen roll tubes – Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Kitchen roll/ tissue – Green general waste bin
L
- Lamps – Local recycling centre
- Leaflets – Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Leaves – Brown recycling wheelie bin
- Light bulbs - Local recycling centre
M
- Magazines – Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Margarine tubs – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Mattresses - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Medicine - return unwanted or out of date medicine to your nearest pharmacy for safe disposal.
- MDF – Inert Waste
- Microwaves - Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Mirrors – Local recycling centre
- Mobile phones - Local recycling centre
- Milk bottles (plastic and glass) - Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Musical instruments - Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
N
- Nappies - Green general waste bin, they cannot be recycled. Try reusable nappies.
- Needles – Any sharps or needles should be returned to your GP.
- Newspapers – Grey recycling wheelie bin
O
- Oil (cooking oil or Engine oil) - Local recycling centre
P
- Packaging – if cardboard, grey recycling wheelie bin. If plastic, green general waste bin.
- Pans - Check with your local charity shops.
- Paper - Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Paper, shredded - Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Paint - Try to use up all paint. You can dispose of unused paint at your local recycling centre.
- Pesticides - Local recycling centre
- Pet litter – Green general waste bin
- Phone directories - Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Pillows - Local recycling centre
- Pill trays with foil – Green general waste bin
- Plant pots and seed trays – Green general waste bin
- Plants without soil – Brown recycling wheelie bin or composted.
- Plasterboard - Inert Waste
- Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays - the following items can be recycled in your blue recycling wheelie bin:
- Plastic bottles including drinks and detergents
- Plastic bakery trays
- Plastic dessert pots
- Plastic egg boxes
- Plastic fruit punnets
- Plastic hand soap dispensers
- Plastic ice cream tubs
- Plastic margarine tubs
- Plastic ready meal trays
- Plastic sauce pots
- Plastic spray bottles from detergent and cleaning products
- Plastic tubs from laundry capsules
- Plastic tubs from personal care products (for example creams and hair gels)
- Plastic yoghurt pots (rinse and remove foil lids)
- Pot noodle pots
- Plastic vitamin and supplement pots
- Plastics - the following items cannot be recycled in your blue recycling wheelie bin:
- Carrier bags
- Buckets
- Pipes
- Toys (Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops)
- Polystyrene packaging
- Clingfilm
- Inner wrap from cereals
- Bread wrappers
- Frozen food bags
- Plant pots
- Bubble wrap
- Crisp packets and sweet bags
- Electrical items
- Pill trays with foil
- Food sachets (e.g. powdered sauces)
- Toothpaste tubes (Terracycle)
- Plastic carrier bags – Many supermarkets now have recycling points for carrier bags.
- Plastic chairs – Local recycling centre
- Plastic toys – Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Polystyrene – Green general waste bin.
- Pots and pans – Check with your local charity shops.
- Prams and pushchairs – Check with your local charity shops.
- Printer cartridges – Local recycling centre
- Pyrex glass including jugs and cooking dishes - Not recyclable so check with your local charity shops
Q
- Quilts – Local recycling centre
R
- Radiators – Local recycling centre
- Radios - Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
- Records, audio tapes, CDs – Check with your local charity shops.
- Refrigerators – Local recycling centre
S
- Sanitary products – not currently recyclable so they will need to be put in your green general waste bin. There are reusable alternatives available in your local health food store or online.
- Scrap metal – Local recycling centre
- Sewing machines – Local recycling centre
- Shoes – Textile banks or check with your local charity shops.
- Small electrical appliances – Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Sofas – Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Soil - Reuse it or offer it to someone who can. This cannot be put in your brown recycling wheelie bin. Excess soil is too heavy to be emptied from a rubbish wheelie bin and not considered household waste. You will need to contact a specialist company to dispose of this type of waste.
- Spectacles – Opticians
- Stamps – you may be able to donate them to charity.
- Steel cans – Blue recycling wheelie bin
T
- Takeaway food containers (plastic and foil) – Blue recycling wheelie bin
- Tea bags – Green general waste bin
- Television sets – Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Tetrapaks - Local recycling centre
- Textiles – Textile banks or check with your local charity shops.
- Timber – Inert Waste
- Tins – from food and drink place in blue recycling wheelie bin including:
- Infant milk and formula tins
- Baby food tins
- Pet food tins
- Tissue/ Toilet roll - cannot be recycled, green general waste bin.
- Toilet and Kitchen roll tubes – Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Tools – Garden hand tools can be taken to your local recycling centre
- Toothpaste tubes – Terracycle
- Towels – Textile banks or check with your local charity shops.
- Trees – If trimmings, brown recycling wheelie bin. Any large pieces can be taken to your local recycling centre
- Toys and games – Check with your local charity shops.
- Tyres – Local recycling centre
V
- Vacuum Cleaners – Local recycling centre
- Vegetable peelings – Green general waste bin
- Video recorders – Local recycling centre or check with your local charity shops.
W
- Washing machines – Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Watches - if in working order, check with your local charity shops.
- Water Butts – Local recycling centre
- WEEE – Local recycling centre or bulky waste collection
- Weeds – Brown recycling wheelie bin or composted.
- Wellington boots – Textile banks or check with your local charity shops.
- Window glass – Local recycling centre
- Wood – Local recycling centre
Y
- Yellow pages – Grey recycling wheelie bin
- Yoghurt pots – Blue recycling wheelie bin