Recycling - Green bin

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

Your collection days may change as the new service started Monday 23 March.

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

• Use the button to check your next collection dates.
• Now includes monthly calendar.

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