About your blue recycling bin
- Glass bottles and jars.
- Plastic bottles.
- Aluminium and steel food and drink cans.
- Empty aerosol cans.
- Clean aluminium foil.
- Aluminium food trays.
What do we throw in the blue bin?
Food tins, pet food tins and drinks cans (rinsed) Paper, ( including magazines, unwanted mail, greetings card, shredded paper, catalogues) Plastic bottles (for example, fizzy drink bottles, milk bottles, water bottles, detergent bottles, toiletry bottles – please remove lids and put them in the blue bin separately)
What plastic products should go in the blue bin?
Plastics
- Soda bottles with caps.
- Juice bottles with caps.
- Cooking oil bottles with caps.
- Detergent containers with caps.
- Bleach containers with caps.
- Shampoo bottles with caps.
- Lotion bottles.
- Mouthwash bottles with caps.
What should you not put in your bin?
What must not go in your 3 bins
- plastic bags.
- plastic wrap or film.
- polystyrene.
- light bulbs.
- Pyrex and Vision cookware.
- mirrors.
- children’s toys.
- textiles or shoes.
What goes in the bin with blue lid?
Blue-topped wheelie bins and clear bags
- magazines.
- newspapers.
- junk mail.
- catalogues.
- envelopes (including with windows)
- card and cardboard packaging.
- egg boxes.
- toilet and kitchen roll tubes.
What type of waste is collected in a blue bin?
Blue dustbins are meant for disposal of plastic wrappers and non-bioderadable wastes. 3. Yellow dustbins are meant for papers and glass bottles.
Can you put wrapping paper in blue bin?
Wrapping paper is often dyed, laminated and/or contains non-paper additives such as gold and silver coloured shapes, glitter, plastics and so on, which cannot be recycled. A lot of wrapping paper has sticky tape attached to it which makes it very difficult to recycle.
Can I throw clothes in the bin?
Don’t throw unwanted clothes in the bin
First things first, if you have to get rid of your clothes, don’t throw them in the bin. Discarded clothes sit in landfill, can take years to biodegrade and then contribute to toxic air pollution[1].
Can you put glass in blue bin?
Put the following clean, dry items loose in your blue bin:
Plastic bottles, pots and tubs. Metal tins, clean foil and cans. Glass bottles and jars.
What plastic items Cannot be recycled?
Examples of non-recyclable plastics include bioplastics, composite plastic, plastic-coated wrapping paper and polycarbonate. Well known non-recyclable plastics include cling film and blister packaging.
What is one thing you Cannot put in recycling bins?
Items that cannot be recycled:
Plastic bags or recyclables inside plastic bags. Takeaway coffee cups. Disposable nappies. Garden waste.
Can you put a dead cat in the bin UK?
Dead animals can’t be put in your wheelie bin or trade waste bin. You can ask us to dispose of a dead animal for you but we may charge for this service. Contact your vet if a pet has died, they may be able to dispose of it for you for a fee.
What happens if you put the wrong stuff in the bin?
First, it can attract pests and create unsanitary conditions. Second, it causes the salability of processed recyclable loads to decrease. If an entire load of recyclable materials reaches the buyer but is contaminated by one thing, the entire shipment will be turned away!
Can you put shoes in the blue bin?
Unfortunately, clothes, shoes and textiles can’t go in your blue recycling bin.
Can you put a frying pan in the blue bin?
Unlike other materials like papers, you have to separate your frying pans. Due to this, you can’t put them in your usual recycling bin. It would be best if you get a metal collection bin. This would serve as a place to put all your metal scraps, including your frying pans.
Can I put wood in my blue recycling bin?
What goes where? Use your blue bin to recycle certain clean paper, cardboard, aluminium and plastic products as listed below. Use your brown or green bin for food waste and garden waste such as grass clippings, weeds, leaves and tree branches or twigs.
What are blue wheelie bins used for?
Recycling bins with a blue lid
This wheelie bin is used for paper and cardboard. We’ll collect: newspapers and magazines. letters, envelopes and junk mail (whole or shredded)
Can you put metal in blue bin?
Don’t forget that all metal packaging can be recycled! So as well as food and drinks cans, items like sweet tins, cake tins, foil trays, aluminium wrapping foil and pet food tins can all be put in your blue recycling bin.
Which bin do clothes go in UK?
Yellow recycling bins are used to collect textiles such as clothes, bed linens, and towels. You most likely won’t have one of these at home, but you will find them at your local recycling bank.
Can envelopes go in blue bin?
Your blue bin is for paper, card and cardboard products only. This includes: paper, shredded paper, newspapers, magazines and envelopes – remove the plastic window from envelopes first.
Can you put bags in blue bin?
Unfortunately plastic bags and wrapping aren’t suitable for your household blue recycling bin but some of them can now be recycled at collection points within some local supermarkets. The following items are accepted at supermarket collection points: Plastic carrier bags (excluding biodegradable/compostable bags)