What you can recycle
What can be recycled in bags or with tape
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What you can recycle
You can recycle all of the following
together, you don’t have to
separate them. Anything which
can’t be recycled should go in your
general waste bag or container.
Yes please...
• Drink and food cans (please rinse)
• Aerosol cans (fully emptied)
• Aluminium foil (clean and dry)
• Metal screw tops and bottle tops
No thanks...
• Paint tins •Other metals
Yes please...
Yes please...
• Wax-lined, poly-lined
and foil-lined cartons (such as
milk cartons, Tetra Pak)
• Drinks bottles – mixed colours
• Food jars
No thanks...
• Liquid waste
• Food waste
• Pane or toughened
glass
• Mirrors/broken glass
•Light bulbs/fluorescent tubes
No thanks...
Yes please...
Plastic containers of all kinds, including:
• Mineral water and cordial bottles • M
ilk bottles • C
oloured and clear fizzy drinks bottles
• Bleach and cleaning fluid bottles • S
hampoo and shower gel bottles
• Detergent and fabric conditioner bottles • Y
oghurt pots • F ood trays
• Ice cream tubs • Margarine containers • F ruit punnets • P
lastic bags • M
agazine wrapping
No thanks...
• Liquid waste • Food waste •Polystyrene packing or beads •Food storage containers
• Plastic furniture •Foil-lined packets (sweet wrappers and crisp packets)
•Black sacks, bio-degradable and degradable bags •Polystyrene packing or beads
•Tupperware containers • Cutlery
Yes please...
• Newspapers, magazines and catalogues • Telephone directories / yellow pages
• Envelopes (including windowed) • J unk mail • Office paper (including coloured paper)
• Wrapping paper • S
hredded paper • Cardboard and cereal boxes (flattened)
• Corrugated card • E
gg boxes • G
reeting cards
No thanks...
• Soiled paper/tissue • Wallpaper •W
axed paper •Foil backed card
•Card with padding or bubble pack
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