Blue bins
As collection times may vary, please ensure your present your bin for collection by 7.00am.
Following a change to your kerbside recycling collection service, we now offer blue wheeled bins for the collection of paper, card, plastic bottles, tins and cans, cartons, aerosol cans, plastic pots, tubs, punnets and trays and foil containers.
What can I recycle in my blue bin?
Paper
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Office paper
- Telephone directories and Yellow Pages
- Brochures and catalogues
- Leaflets
- Envelopes (including window envelopes)
Cardboard
- Cereal boxes
- Cardboard packaging
- Large brown cardboard boxes
- Cardboard tubes
Foil and foil containers
Aerosol cans
Food tins and drink cans
- Soft drink cans
- Soup cans
- Food cans eg baked bean tins
- Large metal tins (such as empty biscuit and chocolate tins)
Cartons - eg Tetra Pak
Rigid plastic food and drink packaging
- Plastic bottles
- Plastic tubs, pots, trays and punnets
- More information about what plastics you can recycle
No thanks:
- Plastic bags
- Polystyrene
- Polythene bags
- Sweet wrappers / crisp packets
- Batteries
- Toothpaste tubes
- Food contaminated packaging
- Hard plastic items such as coat-hangers, toys, plant pots, CD/DVD/video cases
Glass bottles and jars
- Glass bottles/jars should be presented for collection in your red box
- Kerbside glass recycling collection service
How to use your blue bin recycling collection service
We need your help to ensure we collect good quality materials for recycling.
- Rinse food and drink packaging to remove food or drink residue
- Remove film lids or food tray liners from plastic trays or pots (place these in your grey bin)
- Ensure foil and foil containers are not contaminated by food residue
- Ensure aerosol cans are empty before recycling
- Remove any plastic wrapping from junk mail or magazines (plastic film should go in your grey bin)
- Flatten cardboard boxes and squash plastic bottles to save space (you can replace plastic bottle lids)
- Place all items directly into your bin - do not use plastic bags
- Do not put containers inside each other. For example: do not put plastic bottles inside cardboard boxes, or yoghurt pots inside food cans
- Try to keep cardboard and paper dry
Schedule
Boxes are collected every fortnight:
Your blue bin must be presented at the kerbside by 07:00 on your collection day.
Ensure that all your waste fits securely into your blue bin and the lid is closed. Additional material presented outside the bin will not be collected.
Contamination
If your blue recycling bin is not emptied, it may contain items that are not collected for recycling. Common examples include plastic bags, plastic packaging, glass and general household refuse. Please remove the items and dispose of them in either your grey bin or at the Community Recycling Centres.
