White recycling bags
Find out what items you can put in your white recycling bags.These are collected weekly.
White bag for plastic/tins/cans (bag 1)
Items go in loose, not in plastic bags.
Only put in clean items - rinse out plastics, food trays and tins.
Do include
- Plastic bottles e.g. pop, shampoo, milk, bleach bottles.
- Plastic food tubs, pots and trays
- Plastic bottle tops or lids
(please remove from the bottle) - Tins and cans
- Metal lids and caps from jars and bottles
- Aerosol cans e.g. deodorant or hairspray
- Clean foil, scrunched up
- Clean foil food trays
Do not include
- Film (including pallet wrap).
- Hard plastics e.g. garden furniture, coat hangers.
- CD/DVD cases.
- Polystyrene.
- Crisp packets.
- Pet food pouches.
- Plastic plant pots or trays.
- Containers for engine oil or paint.
- Partially full containers.
- Paint tins
- Plastic aerosol lids
- Plastic foil (e.g. crisp packets)
- Plastic bags
- Bubble wrap
White bag for cardboard (bag 2)
Items go in loose, not in plastic bags.
Large card needs to be broken up into smaller pieces.
Do include
- Cardboard boxes
- Corrugated cardboard (please remember to break up to fit in the bag)
- Ready-meal sleeves
- Cereal boxes
- Toilet / kitchen roll tubes
- Greetings cards
- Egg boxes
- Drinks cartons e.g. milk and juice
- Soup cartons
- Tetra Paks
Do not include
- Plastic film - please remove where possible.
- Cartons that haven't been washed out first.