Blue bin

What doesn't go in your blue bin

Recycle it right

Recycling it right is just as important as recycling at all.

Do not use your blue bin for:

• Plastic bags - try to reuse these when doing your shopping
• Clothes and shoes - use your local textile recycling bank
• Glass - bottles and jars go in your glass recycling box
• Batteries - you can recycle these at many shops or at your local Recycling Centre
• Hard plastic items such as coat-hangers, toys, plant pots, CD/DVD/video cases. These cannot be recycled. 
• Food waste - this can be recycled in your food waste caddy
• Garden waste - use your brown bin to dispose of garden waste
• Electrical items - take these to your local Recycling Centre
• Shredded paper

And put all these in your grey bin:

• Polystyrene *
• Sweet wrappers / crisp packets *
• Food contaminated packaging such as pizza boxes
• Toothpaste tubes
• General household rubbish
• Nappies

For a more comprehensive list, look at the A-Z of recycling in Midlothian.

*Some supermarkets now accept in-store collections of soft plastics for recycling:

• Soft plastic recycling - Co-op