What goes in your brown bin
Brown bins are for certain types of recycling only. We accept:
- Plastic bottles, please put their tops on
- Plastic food containers, such as yoghurt pots/margarine tubs
- White and clear plastic ready meal trays and yoghurt pots - please note we do not accept black ready meal trays
- Newspapers and magazines
- Catalogues
- Junk mail and envelopes
- Wrapping Paper
- Greeting cards
- Telephone Directories e.g. Yellow pages
- Cardboard packaging
- Food tins and drink cans
- Foil trays
- Empty aerosols
- Drink and food cartons
- Glass bottles and jars
- Shredded paper
- Egg boxes
- Foil
We do not accept the following in brown bins:
- Black plastics - ready meal trays, meat packaging, black sacks, and any other black coloured plastic containers.
- Electrical items
- Textiles
- Batteries
- Food waste
- Wood
- Nappies
- Green waste
- Toys
- Ceramics
- Ornaments
- CDs and DVDs
- Liquid filled bottles
If you have a mobile phone you would like to recycle visit Envirofone which is an easy way to get cash for your old mobile phone.
For more information please see http://www.lesswaste.org.uk/
