Newspaper and magazines (these should be placed into your blue bag)
Corrugated card
Envelopes (these should be placed into your blue bag)
Cereal boxes
Junk mail/flyers (these should be placed into your blue bag)
Card sleeves
Telephone directories (these should be placed into your blue bag)
Washing powder boxes
Kitchen or food waste (This should be placed into your grey bin)
Thin sheets of card
Garden waste (This should be placed into your brown bin)
Egg boxes
Black bin bags/liners
Glass bottles of all colours
Foil backed card
Steel food and drinks cans
Card with bubble pack or padding attached
Aluminium food and drinks cans
Corks
Steel and aluminium bottle lids
Nappies
Plastic drink bottles
Ceramics, ornaments or crockery
Shower and bath plastic bottles
Plate glass
Plastic drink bottle tops
Mirrors
House cleaning plastic bottles
Batteries (including mobile phone batteries)
Light coloured plastic food trays
Plastic cables, ties, strapping or banding
Yoghurt pots
Garden flower pots
Margarine tubs
Christmas lights
Empty aerosol cans
Plastic toys
Waxed cartons
Plastic trims, frames of mouldings
Plastic carrier bags
Shrink wrap or bubble wrap
Aluminium Foil
Polystyrene packaging or beads
Gas bottles
Video/tape cassettes, CD’s, DVD’s or their cases
Electrical waste including hoses off hoovers
Textiles or clothing
Cushions and duvets
Soil or rubble
Paint tins
Machine or engine parts
Utensils or tools, knives and other sharp objects
Wood and MDF
Crisp packets
Christmas wrapping paper
Large pieces of sheet metal
Burnt or fire damaged material
Wire/cable
Clinical waste, needles and syringes
Dead animals
Hazardous waste
Ropes and belts
Please note that the collection crews are trained to check for contamination and are unable to empty any bin which contains the incorrect types of material. We accept that residents can sometimes place the wrong items in their bin by mistake, so the crews will help by identifying the reason for non-collection. We then ask our residents to remove the contamination before the wheeled bin gets emptied on your next scheduled collection day.
Please also remember to wash and squash where possible. By doing this you will be able to get more into your blue bin for recycling.
Recycling also needs to be placed loosely into the blue bin and not in bin liners.
Please note that we are unable to accept black bin liners or sacks.
Please note that the collection crews are trained to check for contamination and are unable to empty any bin which contains the incorrect types of material. We accept that residents can sometimes place the wrong items in their bin by mistake, so the crews will help by identifying the reason for non-collection. We then ask our residents to remove the contamination before the wheeled bin gets emptied on your next scheduled collection day.
Please also remember to wash and squash where possible. By doing this you will be able to get more into your blue bin for recycling.
Recycling also needs to be placed loosely into the blue bin and not in bin liners.
Please note that we are unable to accept black bin liners or sacks.
When is your blue bin collected?
Find out when your bins are scheduled to be collected.
We collect on bank holidays (excluding Christmas and New Year).
If your bin has been lost, stolen or damaged
Let us know online
Please contact the Environment Team on 0800 269098.