Festive recycling - what goes where
Green lidded and green wheeled recycling bins
- Paper - including wrapping paper, envelopes and Christmas cards except those with glitter or foil.
- Cardboard and drinks cartons: flattened and folded.
- Plastic bottles with lids, pots, tubs and trays - including empty plastic toiletry / household cleaning bottles.
- Tins / cans.
- Empty aerosols.
- Clean tin foil including mince pie cases.
Blue boxes and purple lidded communal glass bins
- Glass bottles and jars.
- Blue boxes only: small electricals for example, hairdryers, toasters and batteries in a clear plastic bag left on top of your blue box.
Grey lidded food recycling bins
All your cooked and uncooked food including meat and bones.
Christmas trees
On your first January garden waste collection you can put Christmas trees next to your garden waste bin. If it is over six foot, please chop it in half and remove the branches. We are collecting trees from 30 December to 9 January. Check our collection directory for the days we are collecting trees from your street.
Bulky waste
Larger items do not go into household waste collections.
tool to find out where you can donate
- unwanted furniture
- electrical items
- white goods
- books
- clothes
- sports equipment
- toys
- games.
For things that cannot be reused
Batteries
Many of our tech and electronic devices, including vapes contain lithium-ion batteries. When crushed these cause fires in our bin lorries and recycling centres.
Never put anything with a lithium-ion battery in your waste or recycling bin.
