Recycling - Green bin

If your bin has not been delivered email greenbin@midlothian.gov.uk with your full name and address.

Your collection days will stay the same until the new service starts from Monday 23 March.

Leaflets have been posted out with details of the new service.

• Use the button to check your next collection dates.
• Calendars also showing collection dates by month will be added soon.

Check your collection dates

• FAQs

What goes in your green bin?

Your green bin is for recycling clean paper and card. 

Place all items directly into your bin – do not use plastic bags. Please flatten boxes to save space in your bin.

Yes

Paper

• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Office paper
• Telephone directories 
• Brochures and catalogues
• Leaflets
• Envelopes (including window envelopes)
• Shredded paper (please enclose this in a paper envelope, paper bag or cardboard box)

Cardboard

• Cereal boxes
• Cardboard packaging
• Large brown cardboard boxes (once flattened)
• Cardboard tubes

No

• Food contaminated packaging such as pizza boxes - put in your grey bin
• Padded envelopes - put in your grey bin
• Disposable coffee cups - put in your grey bin
• Used tissues or kitchen towel - put in your grey bin.
• Cans - put in your blue bin
• Plastics - put in your blue bin
• Cartons (such as Tetra pack cartons) - put in your blue bin
• Plastic bags - reuse these 
• Batteries and vapes - take to a shop that recycles these or a Recycling Centre
• Clothes and shoes - take to a textile recycling point 
• Glass bottles and jars - put in your glass recycling box
• Hard plastic items (e.g. coat-hangers, toys, plant pots) - put in your grey bin. 
• Food waste - put in your food waste caddy
• Garden waste - put in your brown bin
• Electrical items - take to a Recycling Centre