Bins - what can I put in them?
Blue bin
Put in your blue bin:
- Books - paperbacks only
- Brochures
- Card - including cereal boxes and ready meal boxes
- Cardboard
- Catalogues
- Egg boxes
- Envelopes
- Greetings cards
- Junk mail
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Office paper
- Shredded paper
- Telephone directories
- Toilet and kitchen roll tubes
- Washing powder boxes
- Wrapping paper
Do not put in your blue bin:
- Drinks cartons
- Tetrapaks
- Wallpaper
- Facial tissues
- Hand towels
- Padded envelopes
- Polystyrene
- Plastic bags
The item I want to recycle isn't in this list
For information about where to recycle things that you can't put into your brown bin, check the RecycleNow website