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Put it in the right bin!

Here is your guide to resource recovery. To check how you should dispose of your waste items, simply look the item up in the A-Z list below and check the coloured icon.

 

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Yellow items go in your yellow-topped recycling bin.

 

Green items go in your green bin.

 

Red items must be taken to disposal sites.

 

Other items can be recycled by a range of community services.

 

Junk and Greenwaste items are collected from your verge.

 For Hazardous Household Waste Disposal please click here.

A-Z List of Waste Items

 A

  Acids (HHW)

  Aerosol cans

  All glass, any glass

  Aluminium cans

  Aluminium foil

  Ammonia (HHW)

  Auto Batteries (contact local council)

B

  Band-Aids

  Baskets

  Batteries (HHW)

  Beer bottles

  Beer cartons

  Blankets

  Bleaches (HHW)

  Books

  Bottles (tops/lids off)

  Bottle tops/lids

  Bricks (C&D)

  Broken glass

  Building materials/waste (C&D)

  Bulky items

C

  Carbon paper

  Cardboard (boxes & other types)

  Car parts

  Cassette tapes (audio & video)

  Cellophane

  Ceramic (broken plates, pots)

  Cereal boxes

  Cleaners (HHW)

  Clothing/shoes

  Cockroach bait (plastic)

  Coffee jars & cans

  Computer components/accessories

  Computer paper

  Concrete (C&D)

 Cork

  Cosmetic jars

  Cotton wool

  Cotton wool buds

  Cups & saucers

  Cutlery (plastic)

  Cutlery (other)

D

  Dirt and soil

  Disposable nappies

  Drink cans

E

  Electrical appliances

  Electrical equipment

  Envelopes

F

  Fertiliser (HHW)

  Fly tape

  Foam boxes

  Foam meat trays

  Foil

  Food cans (rinsed)

  Food and vegetable scraps

  Fruit juice cartons

  Furniture (fixed)

  Furniture (broken)

G

  Garden chemicals/poison (HHW)

  Garden waste (small prunings and grass clippings)

  Garden waste (large)

  Gas cylinders

  Glad wrap

  Glass (All types)

  Glossy magazines/brochures

  Grease proof paper

 H

  Hosepipe (garden hose)

  Household goods

I

  Ice cream containers (cardboard)

  Ice cream containers (plastic)

  Insecticides (HHW)

J

  Jars

  Jar lids

  Juice cartons/bottles/containers

  Junk (too large for Green Bin)

  Junk mail

K

  Kitty litter

L

  Large garden waste

  Light bulbs/fluorescent tubes

  Liquid paper board

  Long-life cartons

  Lunch boxes

M

  Magazines

  Manure/animal droppings

  Margarine tubs

  Meat trays

  Medicines (HHW)

  Milk bottles and milk cartons

  Mineral Turpentine (HHW)

  Mobile Phones

  Motor Oil (contact local council)

N

  Newspapers

  Needles

O

  Oil (motor) (HHW)

  Oil (cooking)

 P

  Paint tins (empty)

  Paint tins (not empty) (HHW)

  Paper towel rolls

  Paper bags

  Pens/biros/textas/pencils

  Pest control concentrates (HHW)

  Pet food tins (rinsed)

  Petrol and flammable liquids (HHW)

  Phone books

  Picture frames (broken)

  Picture frames (fixed)

  Pizza boxes

  Placemats

  Plastic containers

  Plastic cutlery

  Plastic bags empty

  Plastic plant pots

  Plate glass

  Poison (liquid/solid) (HHW)

  Pool chemicals (HHW)

  Pottery

  Polystyrene

  Printer cartridges

  Plastic bottle lids

  Pyrex (ovenware)

R

  Rat poison (HHW)

  Rope

   Rubber tyres

S

  Sauce bottles (rinsed)

  Seedling containers

  Soft drink bottles (empty)

  Soft drink cans

  Soil

  Sweet wrappers

  Spirit bottles (empty)

  Steel cans (rinsed)

T

  Take-away food containers (rinsed)

  Terracotta tiles/pots

  Timber

   Timber - treated

  Tissues

  Toilet paper rolls (inner)

  Tops (jars/bottles)

  Toys (broken)

  Toys (fixed)

 Tyres

V

  Vacuum cleaner dust

  Vinyl school bags (broken)

  Vinyl school bags (fixed)

  Other vinyl (kitchen tiles etc)

W

  Waxed cardboard

  Waxed paper

  Weeds

  White goods

  Windowpanes

  Wine bottles

  Wood (gardening prunings)

  Wooden planks/bits of wooden furniture

  Wrapping paper

Y

  Yoghurt containers