Your green box is emptied weekly. Please place the box on the kerbside outside your home on your collection day.

What can I put in my green recycling box?

Yes please

• thick and thin card
• cardboard packaging         
• cereal boxes
• egg boxes
• ready meal sleeves
• brown paper wrapping or brown envelopes
• toilet roll tubes
• greetings cards (without foil or glitter)
• wrapping paper (not foil)
• glass bottles (with or without lids attached)                       
• glass jars (with or without lids attached)  
• all coloured glass
• batteries (placed in a small plastic bag)
• printer cartridges
• mobile phones and chargers

No thanks

• cartons (can be recycled at a carton recycling bank)
• paper cups (can be recycled at a carton recycling bank)
• mixed card and metal containers (such as Pringle tubs, gravy containers, formula boxes)
• plastic (plastic packaging can be recycled in your black recycling box)
• white paper (white paper can be recycled in your reusable sack for paper)
• light bulbs
• polystyrene 
• plastic film (some supermarkets have plastic film recycling collection points)
• broken glass, flat glass or pyrex

Please note

• cardboard should be flattened, torn or folded to fit inside your recycling box
• large boxes that have been folded may still be too big to fit inside the opening on the collection lorry and will not be collected
• only recycling placed inside your box will be collected
• large boxes that cannot fit inside your box should be taken to a recycling bank or your local recycling centre
• glass should be rinsed before recycling