4. Green recycling box
Your green box is emptied weekly. Please place the box on the kerbside outside your home on your collection day.
What can I put in my green recycling box?
Yes please
- thick and thin card
- cardboard packaging
- cereal boxes
- egg boxes
- ready meal sleeves
- brown paper wrapping or brown envelopes
- toilet roll tubes
- greetings cards (without foil or glitter)
- wrapping paper (not foil)
- glass bottles (with or without lids attached)
- glass jars (with or without lids attached)
- all coloured glass
- batteries (placed in a small plastic bag)
- printer cartridges
- mobile phones and chargers
No thanks
- cartons (can be recycled at a carton recycling bank)
- paper cups (can be recycled at a carton recycling bank)
- mixed card and metal containers (such as Pringle tubs, gravy containers, formula boxes)
- plastic (plastic packaging can be recycled in your black recycling box)
- white paper (white paper can be recycled in your reusable sack for paper)
- light bulbs
- polystyrene or plastic film
- broken glass, flat glass or pyrex
Please note
- cardboard should be flattened, torn or folded to fit inside your recycling box
- large boxes that have been folded may still be too big to fit inside the opening on the collection lorry and will not be collected
- only recycling placed inside your box will be collected
- large boxes that cannot fit inside your box should be taken to a recycling bank or your local recycling centre
- glass should be rinsed before recycling