What goes in your yellow-lidded recycling bin.
Recycling bin (yellow lid)
The yellow recycling bin is collected every second week
Your yellow bin is for your recyclables including glass, metal, paper and some plastics. Make sure to empty plastic containers of any food, and take the lids off glass jars or plastic bottles before putting them into the yellow bin. Plastic lids go in the red bin.
| ✔ Yes | ✖ No |
| ✔ Office paper and cardboard (not shredded paper) | ✖ Aerosol cans |
| ✔ Newspapers and magazines | ✖ Plastic bags Soft plastics (anything that is plastic and can be scrunched into a ball eg. bread bags, cling film, pasta bags) |
| ✔ Clean pizza boxes | ✖ Polystyrene |
| ✔ Fresh milk or juice cartons (not Tetra Pak) | ✖ Ceramics |
| ✔ Empty plastic takeaway food containers | ✖ Batteries |
| ✔ Plastic bottles (bottle only, lids go in the red bin) | ✖ Plastic cutlery |
| ✔ Detergent bottles (bottle only, lids go in the red bin) | ✖ Garden waste |
| ✔ Empty plastic tubs (eg. yoghurt tubs, ice cream containers) | ✖ Food waste |
| ✔ Plastic meat trays | ✖ Clothes or fabric |
| ✔ Plastic plant pots (less than 10cm in diameter) | ✖ Chemicals Hazardous waste |
| ✔ Plastic fruit punnets and biscuit trays | ✖ Light globes |
| ✔ Aluminium trays and foil (clean and scrunched) | ✖ Electronics |
| ✔ Aluminium and steel cans | ✖ Gas cylinders or canisters |
| ✔ Glass jars and bottles (separate glass from metal lids and place both in the yellow bin) | ✖ Shredded paper or newspaper |
| ✔ Envelopes (including with plastic windows) | ✖ Tetra Pak (long life milk) cartons |
