Please note if you share bins with your neighbours, you may have recycling bins, rather than bags or boxes, but the colour coding system is the same.
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
- crisp 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.
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.
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.
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.
Order more recycling bags and boxes
Whether you need more because you're a super recycler, you're ordering recycling kit for the first time or you need replacements, use our online form. We'll deliver them to you within 8 calendar days.
Order recycling bags and boxes
You can also collect them for free from one the locations listed here that stock them.
What to do if you have more recycling than you can fit in your bags or box
- Extra cardboard: please flatten, tie it into a bundle and leave out with the rest of your recycling
- Extra plastics, cans and tins: please put them in a plastic carrier bag and leave with the rest of your recycling
- Extra paper: please put it in a plastic carrier bag and leave out with the rest of your recycling
- You can also take extra recycling to your local Household Waste and Recycling Centre
