What goes in your bins in the Harrogate area?

Your kerbside recycling goes in two black boxes and two blue bags. 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.

Black recycling boxes 

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 
• 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 
• glasses or spectacles 
• light bulbs 
• paint cans 
• Pyrex or cookware 
• other metals 
• ceramics 

Blue recycling bags 

We will accept: 

• newspapers, magazines and brochures 
• shredded paper, junk mail, plain or coloured paper and envelopes including windows 
• wrapping paper 
• 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 
• medicine blister packs
• 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 (this can be recycled in your black boxes except for dark plastics)
• soil, turf, compost
• large branches
• paper, cardboard (these can be recycled using your blue bags)
• cans, glass (recycle these in your black boxes)
• 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.