What goes in my recycling and rubbish bins or bags?

House with no front garden

We provide a weekly kerbside domestic collection service. 

You must put out your rubbish, recycling and garden or food waste outside your property by 7am on the collection day.

For our recycling collection services, we provide, free of charge:

  • sacks
  • reusable bags
  • caddies
  • bins.

We do not provide black sacks for non-recyclable waste, you must buy these yourself. You can store refuse in a dustbin on your property but must put the black sacks on the highway for collection.

Refuse, recycling and garden or food waste are collected on a weekly collection schedule on the same day every week and carried out in different collection vehicles.

If you are unable to put your rubbish out due to illness, infirmity or disability, you can request an assisted bin collection. 

Recycling - what goes in which bag? 

Use your blue reusable recycling bags for:

  • magazines or newspapers
  • telephone directories
  • envelopes, junk mail and paper
  • cardboard.

Use your white reusable bags or clear recycling sacks for:

  • glass bottles and jars
  • metal food and drink cans
  • clean metal foil
  • plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays and carrier bags.

We will deliver a new roll of clear recycling sacks every 13 weeks.

Food and garden waste

We offer a weekly food waste collection service, this must be put out for collection in 23 litre or 240 litre bins.

We also provide 5 litre food caddies at no extra charge for use inside your property. We also sell food caddy liners for £2.20 for a roll of 26, caddies and liners are available from contact points and local libraries.

You can leave kitchen caddie waste, in its caddy liner, inside your brown wheelie bin on collection day.

Use your brown food bin for all food waste, including:

  • meat and fish
  • plate scrapings
  • fruit and vegetable peelings and cores
  • egg shells
  • tea bags and coffee grounds.

Use your brown garden sack for:

  • grass and hedge clippings
  • garden prunings and weeds
  • small branches (no more than 5cm across)
  • dead plants.

You can place a maximum of 4 brown garden sacks out for collection. Read more about organic waste bins (brown bins).

Soil, stones and rubble are not accepted, but can be disposed of at any household waste recycling centre. 

Order new recycling bins and bags

General rubbish

All non-recyclable rubbish (including disposable nappies) should go into rubbish bags. We recommend you use black rubbish sacks that you can buy from local shops and supermarkets.

Please ensure waste is spread out within your black sacks, that bags are not overfilled and that they are strong enough to stop any waste from spilling out. If in doubt, double bag or split your waste over multiple black sacks.