What to put in your blue recycling bin
Overview
Main part of your bin
The main part of your bin is for:
- Cardboard packaging (cereal boxes, egg boxes, ready meal sleeves, toilet / kitchen cardboard roll holders) - no takeaway pizza boxes
- Glass bottles and jars (beer, wine, perfume / medicine bottles, pasta sauce)
- Plain card (not glue/glitter)
- Food tins (baby milk formula, tins, pet food)
- Drink cans
- Aerosols
- Cartons (milk, juice)
- Plastic (milk / juice / water / shampoo bottles, washing up liquid / bleach / fabric softener bottles, yoghurt / soup / noodle pots, margarine / ice cream tubs, plastic trays)
Inner caddy
The inner caddy is for paper. This includes:
- White office paper
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Envelopes (including those with plastic windows)
- Junk mail
- Telephone directories (yellow pages)
- Catalogues
- Printed paper
- Brochures
- Letters/writing paper
- Shredded paper (please wrap inside other paper to stop it from flying away)