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Brown bins should be used to recycle your garden waste and food waste only (please do not put plastic bags or plastic looking compostable bags into this bin).

 

It is very important that only approved materials are put in the garden waste bin as contamination could result in the whole load being rejected and being sent to landfill instead of recycled as compost.

 

If your bin contains contaminants the bin will be tagged with a red tag and not emptied. We will empty the bin on your next collection day only if the contaminants have been removed.

 

What you should put in the brown bin

• twigs and tree prunings
• real christmas trees (broken up)
• grass cuttings, hedge trimmings
• leaves, bark, cut flowers
• weeds
• eggs
• meat & bones
• plants
• fruit and vegetables and their peelings
• Food left overs. You can use a sheet of newspaper to wrap the food waste in if you wish. Please do not use compostable (plastic looking) bags.

• plastic liners and plastic bags
• bagged waste
• general or household waste
• magazines/paper (except to wrap food waste)
• Furniture/garden furniture
• flowerpots (can now be put in the blue wheelie bin)
• bricks, rubble and soil
• diseased plants
• building materials
• animal bedding and animal faeces (poo)
• turf
• plastic toys
• timber
• batteries
• plastic buckets
• thermos flasks
• glass
• envelopes
• foil
• chinaware
• textiles
• packaging foam
• carpet
• Compostable (plastic looking) bags

All of the materials in the "what not to put in" list are not suitable for making compost.

For our section on recycling, rubbish and waste, please follow this link.