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  Please use you Blue Bin to recycle the following items/materials.

 

All the materials can go into the blue wheelie bin. There is no need to keep your paper and cardboard separate.

 

Paper and cardboard:

• paper and writing paper
• magazines, brochures and catalogues
• greetings cards
• newspapers
• junk mail
• shredded paper
• toilet and kitchen roll inners
• paper bags
• cardboard packaging
• cardboard food sleeves
• cardboard egg boxes
• envelopes
• telephone directories (including yellow pages)
• cereal boxes
• toothpaste boxes
• paper plates (clean)
• wrapping paper (with sticky tape removed please).

Containers:

• drinks cans and food tins
• glass jars and glass bottles
• plastic bottles (such as pop, water, detergent and plastic milk bottles)
• plastic food trays
• plant pots
• carrier bags (loose)
• waxed milk and juice cartons (tetra paks)
• margarine tubs
• ice cream tubs
• yoghurt pots
• empty aerosol cans
• aluminium foil/foil trays

 

Please ensure that all recyclables are clean and free from food contamination and are put in the Blue Wheelie Bin LOOSE and NOT IN BAGS.

 

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What you should NOT put into the Blue Wheelie bin:

• bagged waste general or household waste
• Furniture
• building materials 
• plastic toys
• timber 
• batteries
• plastic buckets
• thermos flasks
• glass cookware(pyrex), glazing (windows) and from picture frames
• chinaware
• textiles
• polystyrene packaging foam
• carpet

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