Check what you can put in your bins
Collections every week
We collect your food and garden waste in your green-lidded bin every week.
We also collect small waste electrical items, low-energy light bulbs, batteries, vapes, textiles and paired shoes every week. Put them in separate plastic carrier bags and leave them on top of your bin to be collected.
Alternate weekly collections
Your recycling collections alternate on a weekly basis with your black bin collection. For example, recycling sacks and blue boxes are collected on one week and your black bin the next.
This system is known as alternate weekly collections or AWC.
Green-lidded food and garden bin
Put these items in your food and garden bin:
- Garden waste
- Meat, bones, fat and gristle
- Fish and fish bones
- Cooked and uncooked food waste
- Shredded paper
- House plants without plastic pots
Keep your green bin clean by lining the bin in:
- Newspaper
- Kitchen roll
- Paper bags
- Cardboard – large amounts of cardboard will result in the bin not being collected
- Compostable bags – only use compostable bags with the registered compostable seedling logo **
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Compostable seedling logo
Do not use black plastic sacks or our clear recycling sacks, this will lead to your waste not being collected.
Blue box
Put these items in your blue box:
- Glass bottles – lids can be kept on
- Glass jars – lids can be kept on
If you have a blue-lidded recycling bin put your glass into the bin. Do not use the blue box.
Recycling sacks
Put these items in your recycling sacks:
- Aerosol cans
- Plastic containers, bottles and lids
- Clean paper, card and shredded paper
- Aluminium foil and foil containers
- Tetra Paks™ and other food cartons
- Food tins and drink cans
Remember to empty and rinse out all food containers.
If you have cardboard that is too large to fit in your recycling sack, flat pack it and place it next to your recycling sacks. No polystyrene or plastic packaging should be in these boxes when packed flat.
Do not use the recycling sacks for any other waste. If these are found in your black bin this may be classed as contamination and may cause refusal of your waste collection.
Black bin
Put these non-recyclable items in your black bin:
- Plastic plant pots
- Expanded polystyrene *
- Food and drink pouches and crisp bags
- Cat and dog waste and pet hutch waste
- Disposable nappies
- Incandescent light bulbs
- Crockery
- Plastic and wooden toys
- Plastic coat hangers
- Plastic plates
- Laminated paper
- Mugs and cups and drinking glasses
- Tupperware containers
- Used toothbrushes
- Sweet wrappers
- Old dishcloths
- Used tissues
- Toilet brushes
- Empty make-up containers
- Contents of vacuum cleaners
* Expanded Polystyrene is the only waste acceptable as side waste. If you put it in a bag clearly mark it as polystyrene.
Small electrical items, batteries and textiles (WEEE)
We collect the following items every week:
- Small waste electrical items
- Low-energy light bulbs
- Small household batteries
- Vapes
- Textiles
- Paired shoes
Put the above in separate small carrier bags and leave them on top of your food and garden bin to be collected every week.
Compost bin
If you have a compost bin at home, you can reduce the amount of waste needed to be processed elsewhere. Composting is a natural process that turns your food and garden waste into soil improver for your garden.