Blue lidded bin
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Metals, plastics and cartons
What do you need to know?
Your blue/blue lidded bin will be collected every four weeks as per your bin collection calendar. Bins should be placed out the night before collection day, however in some town centre areas bins may require to be placed out on the day of collection.
We will only service a maximum of 2 recycling bins per household per collection.
Collections will take place between 1.45pm - 10.00pm (Mon-Thur), 1.15pm - 9.00pm (Fri).
Do not place any additional bags next to your Blue bin. You can take excess recyclates to your local Recycling Centre.
You can now be fined up to £1,000 for deliberately contaminating your recycling containers
What goes in my blue bin?
Metals
- Aerosols cans
- Bottle/Jar lids
- Rinsed tins and cans from food and drink packaging (labels included)
Plastics
- Empty plastic bottles including tops from: food and drink products
- Rinsed plastic food trays (all colours)
- Rinsed plastic food tubs and pots
- Tablet and medicine bottles
- Empty plastic containers - toiletries/cleaning/beauty products
- All rinsed where possible
Cartons
Food and drink cartons (commonly manufactured by Tetra Pak, Elopak and SIG Combibloc) used for milk, fruit juices, smoothies, chopped tomatoes, passata, soup, pulses, custard (rinsed where possible)
(alternative options have been provided for these items)
Metals
- Batteries (accepted at retailers and Recycling Centres)
- Cutlery and kitchen utensils
- Electrical items (accepted at retailers and Recycling Centres)
- Food or Drink Pouches (non-recyclable bin)
- Pots, Pans and Oven Trays (typically accepted in 'scrap metal' waste at Recycling Centres)
Plastics
- Bubble wrap (non-recyclable bin)
- Cartridges e.g. ink (refill or return to producer)
- Compostable packaging (food waste)
- Hard plastics including CD/DVD boxes, coat hangers and plant pots (Reuse online or non-recyclable bin)
- Hard plastic including garden furniture and toys (Donation to charity or HWRC for reuse, recycling or disposal)
- Plastic bags and film i.e. shopping bags, bags for life, bread bags and cling films (recycled at supermarkets where this service is available or disposed in non-recyclable bin)
- Plastic netting
- Polystyrene - rigid or expanded (non-recyclable bin)
- Toothpaste tubes (non-recyclable bin)
- Wrappers e.g. biscuit and crisp wrappers. (non-recyclable bin)
Cartons
- Dried baby formula packs (Non-recyclable bin)
- Pouches (Non-recyclable bin)
- Stacked Crisps tubes (non-recyclable bin)
