Do you know what you can and can’t recycle?

Empty and clean items which can go into your yellow-top recycling bin:

1. Glass: bottles & jars with the lids removed (metal lids can be placed in the bin separately)
2. Paper: not shredded
3. Cardboard: flattened
4. Plastic: bottles (lids removed – these can’t go into your recycling bin) & rigid containers (apart from meat trays)
5. Cans: aluminium & steel 

The following items do not belong in your yellow top bin 

• Bagged items 
• Soft ‘scrunchable’ plastics’
• Clothes or other textiles  
• Nappies, food or garden waste 
• Gas bottles, aerosols or batteries 
• Polystyrene products 
• Takeaway coffee cups  
• Items marked ‘compostable’ or ‘biodegradeable’ 
• Meat trays – even clean they are a contaminant risk 

4 common recycling mistakes

1. Failure to place items in the correct bin - recyclable products end up in landfill.   
2. Not rinsing items - the residue can contaminate other recyclable materials, sending them to landfill.  
3. Not removing lids from plastic or glass containers - hinders the sorting process.  
4. Disposing of nappies in the yellow-top bin – yes, this actually happens! Nappies should always go into the general waste bin.  

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