Our mixed recycling bins collect clean paper, card, cans and tins, and plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays. These are sorted at Biffa’s sorting plant at Broxburn and sold to the different reprocessors.
Do you still have to book at recycling Centre in Edinburgh?
Please book an appointment at a recycling centre or a special uplift for these. Our recycling centres are re-opening and will have extended opening hours. Please book an appointment to visit one.
What can be recycled in Edinburgh?
Green wheelie bins, green lidded communal bins and red boxes* are for recycling paper, plastics, cans, cardboard and foil. (*Red boxes are only available to certain properties in the city centre). Blue lidded communal bins are for recycling paper. Where not available, paper can go in mixed recycling bins.
What goes in red recycling box Edinburgh?
Red box: mixed recycling
- paper and unwanted mail.
- cardboard.
- clean plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays.
- clean cans, tins, foil and empty aerosols.
- envelopes.
How do you recycle in Scotland?
Visit your local council’s website to find your nearest recycling centre. Businesses can benefit from reduced disposal costs by recycling. Zero Waste Scotland gives support for businesses, including a business resource centre. The Recycle for Scotland website gives information on what you can recycle in your area.
Can you put shredded paper in recycling Edinburgh?
City of Edinburgh Council kerbside recycling service accepts many types of packaging. In the Green bin you can recycle tins, cans, paper, cardboard, envelopes, shredded paper, plastic bottles and bottle tops, pots, tubs and trays- put the items in loose, do not use plastic or black bags.
What can I take to recycling Centre Edinburgh?
The following items can be accepted at recycling centres, although they may be in different skips or locations to the previous layout:
- garden waste: flowers, plants, garden weeds, grass clippings, hedge trimmings and leaves.
- bricks, rubble and loose soil.
- solid wood.
- MDF and laminates.
- household batteries.
- vehicle batteries.
What items Cannot be recycled?
Common materials that can be recycled include glass, paper, plastic and metal. Single-use packaging such as disposable containers and cups often cannot be recycled as they are contaminated with food. While food waste and e-waste can be recycled, they cannot be placed inside the blue recycling bins.
Can you recycle bottle caps in Edinburgh?
Empty it. Make sure any bottles or containers are empty. Remember, you can leave plastic drink bottle tops on, but please remove any pump sprays.
Can bubble wrap be recycled Edinburgh?
Our collection services
Please don’t put bags, wrappers, toys or any other type of plastic in your bin. Our contractor recycles these in their own recycling plants in England. Anything they can’t recycle is turned into fuel.
Can you recycle envelopes with windows Edinburgh?
Blue bin: Paper: newspapers, magazines, office paper, telephone directories and Yellow Pages, brochures and catalogues, leaflets, envelopes (including window envelopes). Cardboard: cereal boxes cardboard packaging, large brown cardboard boxes, cardboard tubes.
Do beer cans go in the green bin?
All the obvious stuff can go in the green bin: newspapers, books, magazines, cardboard, cereal boxes, plastic bottles, plastic containers, tin cans and aluminium cans are fine. There are a lot of symbols on packaging. What do they all mean?
Which Colour bin is for what?
your blue bin is for recyclable waste. your brown bin is for garden waste and food waste. your green or grey bin is for non-recyclable waste.
Where does my recycling go Edinburgh?
All waste that is collected from grey bins or black lidded communal bins is taken to our new energy recovery facility at Millerhill, where it is processed into electricity, instead of being landfilled.
Is Scotland good at recycling?
Just over 40 per cent of all household waste in Scotland was recycled last year – less than in any other UK nation – new figures have revealed.
What goes in the blue recycling bin Edinburgh?
Blue box – glass and small electricals
- glass bottles and jars.
- small electrical items placed on top or next to the box, for example hairdryers and toasters.
- household batteries placed inside a clear bag and on top of the box.
- clothing, towels, clean sheets, pairs of shoes, placed inside a plastic bag.
Are coffee jar lids recyclable?
Plastic lids from containers such as coffee jars can be recycled in your blue bin or sack. Ideally, place plastic lids back onto the bottles or jars from which they came prior to recycling in your blue bin or sack. This is not essential but it does help the sorting process.
Can you put black bags in the recycling bin?
We won’t collect your recycling if it contains anything that can’t be recycled. This includes black bin bags, textiles, electricals, nappies or food.
Can glass go in mixed recycling?
Your mixed recycling bin is for disposal of paper, card, metal, plastic and glass. No excess waste/recycling can be left on the street next to the bin.
Can you put drinking glasses in blue bin?
Glass bottles and jars
metal lids can be placed in your blue recycling bin separately for recycling. Glasses (spectacles) Reading/vision glasses only. Not drinking glasses. No cases.
Can you put plastic bottles in blue bin?
Items to put in your blue bin
You can recycle: glass bottles and jars. plastic bottles, tubs and trays unless it’s black plastic.