What goes into which container?

Green box

Please rinse the glass bottles and jars, and take off the lids.

Please do not put any plastic items or food and drink tins, cans or cartons in the green box.

These items are separately sorted at the kerbside, for the following reasons:

• The glass can't be collected in the blue box because those recyclables are compacted in the lorry - any broken glass will contaminate the other items and make them more difficult to process.
• Newspapers, magazines and office paper are 'high quality', and are worth collecting separately so that they can be recycled back into newsprint.

Blue box

Please remember not to put glass in the blue box

Please rinse and squash the plastic bottles and cans. You can put the lids back onto the bottles.

These items are compacted on the lorry to save space and reduce environmental and financial costs of transporting. They are taken to a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) where they are separated and sent on for reprocessing.

Garden waste bag

For information on garden waste please see our Garden Waste page

Other recycling

For information on recycling materials that cannot be collected at the kerbside please visit our Bring Banks page

How do I get more recycling containers?

Please contact us using the contact details on the right hand side of the page.

Page last reviewed 29 May 2008