White recycling bags
Find out what items you can put in your white recycling bags.
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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 (wheelie bin/black bags)
- 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
- Coffee pods
White bag for cardboard, cartons and paper (bag 2)
Items go in loose, not in plastic bags.
Large card needs to be broken up into smaller pieces.
Do include
- Cardboard boxes
- Catalogues and junk mail
- Cereal boxes
- Corrugated cardboard (please remember to break up to fit in the bag)
- Drinks cartons e.g. milk and juice
- Egg boxes
- Envelopes (plain / padded)
- Greetings cards
- Paper and magazines
- Phone directories
- Ready-meal sleeves
- Toilet/kitchen roll tubes
- Shredded paper (please place at the bottom of the box)
- Soup cartons
- Tetra Paks
Do not include
- Animal bedding
- Cartons that haven't been washed out first
- Kitchen roll
- Laminated paper
- Plastic film - please remove where possible
- Textiles
- Tissues or wet wipes
- Wallpaper
- Wrapping paper
