Recycling: Green boxes and blue bag

You should have two green boxes and a blue bag to put your recycling in.

Your recycling is collected every week. Please make sure your recycling is out at the kerbside by 7am on the day of collection.

Below is a guide to our recycling and waste services leaflet that you can download and keep. 

Waste and recycling leaflet 2025 - pdf - 2.36 Mb

 

Plastic and tins: green box one

In one green box you can recycle:

• plastic bottles (includes any plastic container which is bottle shaped, including: milk bottles, fizzy drink and squash bottles, shampoo and conditioner bottles, empty bleach bottles, detergent bottles. We can take lids but please remove triggers)
• Plastic pots, tubs, trays and punnets
• tins and cans
• metal biscuit and sweet tins
• metal lids
• empty aerosols
• aluminium foil or containers (must be clean)

We cannot collect and recycle the following:

• hard plastics (such as flower pots, plastic toys)
• Black plastics
• soft plastics / plastic film (such as carrier bags, bread bags, crisp packets, film lids from pots or trays, clingfilm, bubble wrap)
• pet / baby food pouches
• cartons (such as Tetra Pak)

Pots, tubs and trays are particularly light and can blow out of the recycling container if not careful. When putting out recycling containers for collection, residents should stack another one of their recycling containers on top of their box for plastics to prevent plastic from blowing away.

Glass and textiles: green box two

In your second green box you can recycle glass bottle and jars but remove the lids first, put lids in your box for tins and cans.

Please do not recycle broken glass, glasses and tumblers, sheet glass, light bulbs or fluorescent tubes. Old-style incandescent light bulbs can go in your general waste bin, everything else should be taken to a recycling centre.

Put any textiles in a tied carrier bag to keep them dry and separate from the glass. The bag must fit easily in the green box. We can collect:

• Clothing and paired shoes
• Hats, gloves, belts, scarves
• Handbags

We are not able to collect carpets, rugs, bedding, wet textiles, curtains.

Paper and card: blue bag

Paper and card must be inside the bag to be collected. You can recycle:

• newspapers and magazines
• telephone directories and catalogues
• paper and envelopes
• junk mail and leaflets, but remove the plastic wrapping
• flattened brown corrugated cardboard
• grey card for example cereal boxes
• white or coloured card
• plain greetings cards with no foil, glitter or ribbons
• plain wrapping paper with the tape removed

We cannot collect

• cartons, for example Tetra Pak
• Plastic film or wrappers
• polystyrene

Small electrical items and batteries

We collect small electrical and electronic appliances, including disposable vapes, and household batteries every two weeks. 

Bag your items (using an old carrier or a bag of similar size or smaller) and place them on the lid of your general waste bin on your collection day.

We can collect anything small that has a plug, batteries or needs charging. Batteries we will collect include AA, AAA, C, D, 9v, button batteries, mobile and laptop batteries.

We cannot collect TVs and monitors, car and motorbike batteries, large appliances such as vacuum cleaners and microwaves.

 

Related Pages

• What happens to your recycling
• Recycling banks and centres
• Get help with your collection
• Getting rid of large items
• Reduce and reuse your waste