Your kerbside recycling goes in two blue bags or a blue lidded wheelie bin. Please wash and squash your recycling and flatten cardboard boxes or cut them down to fit in the blue bag.
Your residual household waste goes in a black wheelie bin. Households that are not suitable for a wheelie bin will have a maximum of two rubbish sacks collected each week.
Recycling bags and blue lidded wheelie bins
We will accept:
- glass bottles and jars of any colour
- plastic bottles, shampoo and cleaning product bottles with lids or trigger spray nozzles on
- plastic yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, light coloured and clear plastic food trays
- food tins and drinks cans (aluminium or steel)
- tin foil, foil trays and foil dishes (squashed into tennis ball sizes)
- cardboard food and drinks cartons
- empty aerosol containers such as air fresheners, deodorant cans, shaving foam
- Tetra Pak cartons
We won’t accept:
- batteries
- black plastic food trays
- broken glass
- ceramics
- containers with food waste
- glasses or spectacles
- light bulbs
- medicine blister packs
- paint cans
- plastic bags, wrap and film
- Pyrex or cookware
- other metals
- textiles
- toys
Batteries
Please do not place used, dead batteries in the rubbish bin or recycling as these can be crushed or punctured when the waste is collected and processed. Some battery types can ignite or explode when they are damaged and can then set fire to other materials in your waste bin.
Batteries should be recycled safely at one of the Household Waste Recycling Centres or find your local battery recycling point on the Take Charge website.
Blue recycling bags
We will accept:
- newspapers, magazines and brochures
- shredded paper, junk mail, plain or coloured paper and envelopes including windows
- wrapping paper (paper based)
- telephone directories and catalogues
- clean paper bags
- clean card such as cereal boxes, food packaging from frozen food or ready meals, greetings cards and egg boxes
- brown cardboard and corrugated cardboard packaging, flattened and cut down to fit in the bag
We won’t accept:
- plastic wrapping or bubble wrap inside cardboard boxes
- cardboard with food on
- pizza or fast food takeaway boxes
- wrapping paper with glitter or made of foil
- plastic bags
- string
Black wheelie bin and rubbish sacks
All non-recyclable waste.
Garden waste bins and sacks
We will accept:
- hedge cuttings
- twigs and small branches
- grass cuttings
- leaves
- cut flowers
- prunings
- plants
- Christmas trees (which can also be taken to the household waste recycling centres)
We won't accept:
- garden waste in plastic bags or sacks, including compostable and biodegradable bags
- food and kitchen waste
- pet litter
- bricks/rubble
- plant pots
- plastic
- soil, turf, compost
- large branches
- paper, cardboard (these can be recycled using your blue bags)
- cans, glass
- windfall fruit
- Japanese knotweed
All garden waste must be placed in wheelie bins with the lid closed (or securely in the reusable garden waste sacks provided). We will not empty your bin or sack if garden waste is in plastic bags, including compostable and biodegradable.