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What goes in your bin?

Check what you can put in your household rubbish, garden waste and recycling bins, sacks, boxes or bags.

Types of waste and recycling bins, boxes and bags

Depending on where you live in North Yorkshire, you might have:

  • black bins
  • grey bins
  • blue bins
  • green bins
  • brown bins
  • red bins
  • waste sacks
  • recycling boxes
  • recycling bags
  • garden waste sacks or liners

What you can put in your bins, boxes and bags

What you can and cannot put in your bins, boxes or bags depends on where you live.

You can use our town and village lookup tool to check what will and will not go in your rubbish or recycling. 

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