Recycling - Blue bin

What goes in your blue bin?

Your blue bin is for clean, dry plastics, cans and cartons.

Place all items directly into your bin – do not use plastic bags. There's no need to squash containers, but it could help save space in your bin.

Plastic food and drink packaging
- Plastic bottles, plus lids
- Plastic tubs, pots, trays and punnets
Food tins and drink cans
- This includes large metal tins such as biscuit tins.
Aerosol cans
Cartons e.g. milk and juice Tetra Pak
Foil and foil trays and containers

Paper, Card or Cardboard - put in your green bin.
Soft plastic (e.g. polystyrene, plastic bags, sweet wrappers, crisp packets) - take to a supermarket that accepts in store collections or put in your grey bin.
Hard plastic (e.g. coat-hangers, toys, plant pots) - put in your grey bin
Glass bottles and jars - put in your glass recycling box
Batteries and vapes - take to a shop that recycles them or a Recycling Centre
Toothpaste tubes - put in your grey bin
Clothes and shoes - take to a textile recycling point
Food waste - put in your food waste caddy
Garden waste - put in your brown bin
Electrical items - take to a Recycling Centre
Food contaminated packaging such as coffee cups and pizza boxes - put in your grey bin.
General household rubbish - put in your grey bin.
Nappies - put in your grey bin.