Recycling Bin Store

This timber garden recycling bin store is the perfect place to store your wheelie bin for general waste, your recycling black box for glass and textiles, your recycling blue bag for paper, your recycling red bag for cans, plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, your recycling orange bag for cardboard, and your food waste caddy.

What can and can’t be recycled in your Orange bag for cardboard

Yes please

• brown and white cardboard/card
• coloured paper
• non-shiny wrapping paper
• greetings cards
• brown envelopes

No thank you

• cartons
• coffee cups
• Pringles tubes
• polystyrene
• plastic film lids
• bubble wrap

Please remove any plastic envelope padding or excess sticky tape.

Flatten any boxes you can’t fit in your orange bag, tie in a bundle and leave next to your orange bag.

It’s not yet possible to put cartons and paper cups into your orange bag to be recycled.

What can and can’t be recycled in your Red bag for plastic and metal packaging

Yes please

• drinks cans
• food tins
• aerosols
• aluminium foil
• plastic bottles
• plastic pots/tubs
• plastic trays
• trigger sprays

No thank you

• cartons
• plastic bread bags
• plastic film lids
• plastic bags
• plastic sweet and biscuit wrappers
• polystyrene
• black plastic
• plastic toys

Please rinse and squash dirty cans, tins, plastic pots, tubs and trays before recycling them. Bottles should be washed, squashed and the lids put back on.

What can and can’t be recycled in your Blue bag for paper

Yes please

• newspapers
• magazines
• brochures
• junk mail
• white envelopes
• shredded paper (in a tied bag)
• utility bills

No thank you

• cartons
• paper towels
• wallpaper
• brown paper
• laminated paper
• wrapping paper

Use for white paper, newspaper, magazines, junk mail. Please remove any plastic envelope padding or excess sticky tape. Put shredded paper in a tied plastic carrier bag.

What can and can’t be recycled in your Black box for glass and textiles

Put clean and dry clothing, shoes, towels and sheets (no duvets, pillows, dirty or damp clothing) in a tied plastic bag to keep them dry and put the bag on top of your black recycling box.

Yes please

• wine and beer bottles
• jam jars
• make up pots
• perfume bottles
• wearable clothes and shoes
• towels, sheets and pillowcases
• belts and bags

No thank you

• broken glass
• Pyrex or cookware
• drinking glasses
• sheet glass
• duvets
• pillows
• dirty, damp or worn out clothes and shoes

Glass bottles and jars

No broken glass, please. Put it in a rigid plastic box like an ice cream tub, mark it clearly as ‘broken glass’ and put it out with your household rubbish.

Textiles

Put clean and dry clothing, shoes, towels and sheets in a tied plastic bag to keep them dry and put the bag on top of your black recycling box.

What can and can’t be recycled in your food waste caddy

Yes please

• All uneaten food and plate scrapings
• Dairy products, cheese, eggs and egg shells
• Bread, cakes, pastries
• Raw and cooked meat, bones
• Tea/coffee bags including non biodegradable and coffee grounds
• Raw and cooked vegetables, fruit and peelings
• Raw and cooked fish, bones
• Rice, pasta, beans
• Uneaten wet and dry pet food but not pet waste

No thank you

• Plastic carrier bags and food packaging, non compostable caddy liners or ‘biodegradable’ packaging
• Commercially compostable takeaway cups, plates and bowls like Vegware
• Large amounts of liquid including milk, oils and fats
• Nappies, clinical waste, cat litter, dog poo or other pet waste
• Garden waste
• Any other material that is not food waste