Communal recycling bins
Your shared recycling bins are emptied fortnightly.
Our collection vehicle will visit twice on collection day, as glass is collected separately and taken to a different location than your other recycling.
Preparing your recycling:
- place your recycling in the bins loose.
- rinse off any food residue from plastics and cans.
- fold your cardboard to fit in the bin.
Please refer to the stickers on the side of the bins and put your recycling in the correct bin.
Use your plastics and cans bin for:
- plastic bottles (eg. drinks, detergent and shampoo bottles)
- plastic pots (eg. yogurt pots)
- plastic tubs (eg. ice cream tubs and margarine tubs)
- plastic trays (eg. ready meal trays, fruit trays and meat trays)
- food cans
- drinks cans
- jar and can metal lids
- biscuit and sweet tins
- deodorant aerosols
- household aerosols
- tin foil
Please wash, squash and loosely replace bottle tops
Use your cardboard bin for:
- thick and thin card
- cardboard packaging
- cereal boxes
- egg boxes
- ready meal sleeves
- brown paper wrapping or brown envelopes
- toilet roll tubes
If you have large cardboard boxes, please flatten or tear them into smaller pieces so that they fit in the bin or take them to your nearest recycling bank or recycling centre.
Use your paper bin for:
- white paper
- newspapers and magazines
- directories and catalogues
- junk mail
- shredded paper
- white window envelopes
Use your glass bin for:
- glass bottles
- glass jars
- all coloured glass
Please rinse all glass before recycling.
Use your textiles bin for:
Bagged textiles including:
- clothes
- blankets and sheets
- towels
- curtains
- paired shoes
Food waste
Food waste is collected weekly from food waste containers.