Blue Recycling Bin

Please Note:  The council is in the process of changing recycling services to kerbside properties (houses that present their bins to the pavement on collection day).  The blue bin for properties which have already switched to the new twin stream recycling service should only use the blue bin for mixed papers, card and cardboard.  This also applies to flats which have their general waste and recycling collected from bin hubs.

For further information, you can view the dedicated pages on twin stream recycling and the bin hubs for flats.

Blue Bin Recycling (Kerbside Properties and Flats)

The blue bin recycling service is for the collection of paper, card, plastic bottles, empty aerosol cans and food and drink cans.

Your blue bin is collected every two weeks. You can view our online calendar for information on collection dates. 

You can recycle the following items within your blue bin:

• Mixed papers - newspapers, magazines, journals, junk mail, brochures, catalogues, directories, yellow pages, envelopes
• Cardboard - cardboard boxes, card packaging
• Plastic bottles - milk bottles, drinks bottles, sauce bottles, shampoo bottles, cleaning product bottles
• Food and drink cans - steel cans, aluminium cans and food tins.
• Empty aerosol cans

Placing items, other than those noted above, into the blue bin will adversely affect the quality of the material that we send to our re-processing partners which can result in material not being recycled. The quality of items collected is as important as the quantity of items collected.

Please do not place the following items into your blue bin:

• General waste/food waste
• Glass bottles
• Yogurt pots
• Tetra paks
• Elopak
• Cardboard beverage containers 
• Plastic bags
• Margarine/butter tubs
• Cartons
• Books

Recycling Bin Videos