Using your bins correctly
Red-top rubbish bin
All general rubbish, food and organic household waste goes into your red-top rubbish bin. The contents of your red-top bin are collected weekly.
Below are items which should not go into your red-top bin:
- NO glass bottles (these can be placed in your recycling bin)
- NO hot ashes
- NO construction or building materials
- NO household hazardous waste
- NO motor oil
- NO car batteries
- NO heavy items.
If you have a compost bin, click here for a full list of items that can be put in this bin.
Yellow-top recycling bin
The contents of your yellow-top recycling bin are collected fortnightly, then sorted and bailed at the material recovery facility (MRF) and sold to industry for re-processing.
Items should be loose (do not put recyclable items in plastic bags), and if possible rinsed or scraped out clean.
Items you can put in your recycling bin:
- Plastic - bottles (no lids), margarine and ice-cream containers (up to 5 litres in capacity) and flower pots (clean). Look for the recycling symbol.
- Steel - food/drink cans.
- Cardboard - cereal boxes, pizza boxes (empty), boxes and egg cartons.
- Glass - bottles and jars.
- Aluminium - cans, clean foil and foil trays.
- Paper - magazines, newspapers, office paper, envelopes and glossy paper.
Items you should not put in your recycling bin:
- NO plastic bags
- NO food or garden waste
- NO electrical goods
- NO clothing, textiles or bedding
- NO nappies
- NO ceramics or pyrex
- NO disposable coffee cups
- NO meat trays
- NO oil or paint
- NO aerosols
- NO shredded paper
- NO polystyrene
Lime green-top greenwaste bin
The contents of your lime green-top greenwaste bin are collected on alternative weeks to your yellow-top recycling bin.
No sand, soil or plastic bags should be placed in this bin.
Place the following into your lime gtreen-top greenwaste bin:
- Grass, leaves and weeds (but no soil)
- Small branches
- Prunings and small plants
Contents of your greenwaste bin are processed into a soil conditioner.
For a more detailed list of what can go in each bin, see our A-Z of Waste.