You can recycle many items through your kerbside
collections or at your nearest recycling facility.
Items that can be recycled in your
food waste collection:
- cooked and raw food including bones
- dairy products
- vegetables and fruits including peelings*
- egg shells*
- pet food
- paper towels and tissues*
- tea bags and coffee grounds*
* These items can also be composted. Read
food
waste FAQs for more information about the service.
Items that can be recycled in your
green garden waste bag:
- grass cuttings and prunings
- flowers, leaves, plants and weeds
- hedge and conifer clippings
- twigs and tree branches of a maximum 10cm (4.5")
diameter
Read
green garden waste FAQs for more information about
the service.
Items that can be recycled in your
recycling box:
- aerosols
Ensure that it is completely empty and do not pierce, crush or
flatten the cans but do detach any loose or easily
removable parts such as the lid.
- batteries
All household batteries can be recycled in your recycling box.
- cardboard
Including corrugated, printed, thin (eg: cereal boxes,
kitchen/toilet roll tubes, ready meal sleeves, greetings cards
without glitter or novelties).
- cartons
Including drinks, food, fruit juice, soup and Tetra Pak
cartons.
- glass bottles and jars
Please wash the bottles and jars and put the lids
and caps loose in the green box
- metal
Including aluminium foil, food and drinks cans, metal
lids from jars, tins and trays and wine screw tops.
- mobile phones
- paper
Including brochures, catalogues, envelopes, magazine,
newspapers, telephone directories, wrapping paper, Yellow
Pages.
- plastic
All types of rigid white, coloured or opaque plastic,
polyethylene terephthalate, high density polyethylene or
polypropylene. We can not accept black plastic of any type, or
non-rigid expanded or foam types of plastic.
- spectacles
- textiles
Including all types of shoes (tied in pairs), bedding, curtains,
cloths, clothes, rags, rugs and mats and towels. Make sure the
items are clean, dry and bagged separately
Read our
recycling
box FAQs for more information about the service.
Items that can be recycled at a
recycling centre:
All items collected from your kerbside recycling box can also be
taken to a recycling centre. You can also take waste
electrical equipment to the centres.
We can accept these items in restricted quantities:
- cement bonded asbestos: two sheets per visit or per week,
whichever is less. This must be double wrapped in thick polythene
sheeting and fully sealed with strong tape, or in thick plastic
sacks in small pieces
- car tyres: five per visit or per week whichever is
less
- fire extinguisher: one domestic size per visit or per
week, whichever is less
- propane or butane gas 15KG bottles: one per
visit or per week, whichever is less
- soil and rubble: five standard size (80 litre) refuse
bags per visit or per week, whichever is less
Read our
recycling centres FAQs for more information about the
service.
