Blue recycling wheelie bin
Your blue wheelie bin is for household items that can be recycled.
Your blue bin will be collected every other week with your small green food waste bin. Place your recycling bin at the edge of your property by 7am on collection day.
Check your collection schedule to find out when your recycling is collected.
Extra recycling can be collected but please try to fit it in the bin first. If you are unable to fit your extra recycling in to your bin please present it in clear sacks so that the crew can see what is in the sacks.
Any extra recycling presented in a black refuse sack will not be collected.
When recycling:
- put items straight into your bin without using a bag
- wash out your items before you put them in the bin or we cannot recycle anything in the bin
- check symbols on the bottom of many plastic items to see if it can be recycled
If you live in a property with a front boundary you will be able to use the wheelie bin recycling service.
Based on space available, some households are unsuitable for wheelie bins, these properties will use green boxes instead.
Put the following clean, dry items loose in your blue bin
You can recycle:
- cardboard like cereal boxes, pizza boxes, toilet roll tubes, food and drink cartons
- cards without glitter
- cartons
- glass bottles and jars
- kitchen foil and foil meal containers
- letters, envelopes, junk mail, copier paper
- newspapers, magazines, catalogues, phone books and paperback books
- plastic bottles, tubs and trays unless it is black plastic
- tins, cans and empty aerosol cans
Your bin will not be collected if it contains
You cannot recycle:
- black sacks and cling film
- carrier bags, black sacks and cling film. Find your nearest locations to recycle your plastic bags
- crisp packets and sweet wrappers
- crockery, pyrex and glassware (vases and drinking glasses)
- DIY waste
- food and garden waste
- nappies
- polystyrene packaging
Replacement bins
If your bin or box has been lost, stolen or damaged, you can order a replacement online.
Other items you can recycle
The following items can be recycled by placing them separately on top of or next to your blue wheelie bin:
- textiles (p put them in a clear or white plastic bag so that the crew can identify them as recycling, and tie shoes together in pairs)
- engine oil (stand upright in a sealed container, please no cooking oil as this should be taken to a reuse and recycling centre)
- domestic and vehicle batteries (keep household batteries in a tied up bag; please do not place car batteries on the pavement)
You can also recycle other materials at reuse and recycling centres
