Green household bin

What you can put in your green bin:

Please recycle as much as you can in your blue bin. Find out what you can recycle.

Most general household waste items that cannot be recycled can go in your green bin. This includes:

• Tissue paper or wallpaper
• Pizza boxes
• Textiles - old clothes, tea towels and towels
• Nappies
• Plastic films - such as cling film, bread wrappers, crisp packets, biscuit wrappers, vegetable wrappings and magazine wrappings
• Hard plastic - such as toys, kitchenware and CD or DVD cases
• Wrapping paper and glittery cards and other glittery items
• Polystyrene
• Medical waste - non-infectious medical waste such as nappies and incontinence pads, dressings and related packaging
• Light bulbs wrapped in paper. Alternatively they can be taken to the Household Waste and Recycling Centre to be recycled.

What you can NOT put in the bin:

• Any type of batteries - they can cause fires. Instead, take them to:
  • battery collection points in most supermarkets and many high streets, find out which local shops they are by visiting Recyclenow (opens new window).
  • local community centres and venues that have battery collection containers/tubes
  • the Household Waste and Recycling Centre, in the dedicated battery recycling bins, they should not be put in the general waste skip. Ask a site attendant if you're not sure
• Disposable vapes - they contain batteries and can cause fires. Instead please take them to:
  • the Household Waste and Recycling Centre and put them in the correct containers, they should not be placed in the general waste skip. Ask a site attendant if you're not sure
• Small electrical items containing batteries - they can cause fires. Instead, take them to:
  • the Household Waste and Recycling Centre and put them in the correct containers, they should not be placed in the general waste skip. Ask a site attendant if you're not sure
  • a shop that accepts electrical items - recycle your electricals shop locator (opens new window)
• Hazardous waste - such as poison and chemicals
• Asbestos
• Electrical items - such as electrical plug, microwaves, irons and toasters
• Gas bottles
• Inhalers - used inhalers should be returned to a pharmacy to be disposed of safely
• Motor vehicle parts
• Brick/rubble
• Soil or large branches
• Commercial waste
• Infectious and other clinical waste like used needles  - seek advice from your nurse practitioner on their disposal