The council's waste management team have introduced a new service for dry recyclables - glass, cans and plastics - in brown bins. Each of the 13,000 properties included in the trial has been sent full information about this service through their door, including a calendar of collection dates. Collections of the brown bins are every two weeks and residents will be able to recycle a wide range of material that at present often goes to expensive landfill sites.
Collections of the brown bins are every two weeks, along with garden waste and paper collections. The service is a new trial scheme, and the council is hoping to expand the scheme to cover all suitable properties over the next couple of years. The service works in the same way as other bin collections; residents should bring their bin to the edge of their property on their collection day and return it once it has been emptied.
What can I place in my brown bin?
Here is a list of what we can accept in the brown bins. Please rinse out all food containers before putting them in the bin.
Glass
Yes please:
- Glass bottles - any colour or type
- Glass jars - any colour or type
No thanks:
We can not accept any other types of glass in the brown bin, such as:
- Plate glass
- Oven / kitchen ware, drinking glasses
- Window glass or windscreens
- Glass ash trays
- Mirrors
- Light bulbs / fluorescent tubes
- Spectacles – you can donate them to charity or please take these back to the shop outlets.
Plastic
Yes please:
- Plastic bottles such as:
- Fizzy drink bottles
- Mineral water bottles
- Cooking oil bottles
- Plastic milk bottles
- Food sauce bottles
- Fruit juice and cordial bottles (not cartons)
- Fabric conditioner bottles
- Washing up liquid bottles
- Cleaning liquid bottles
- Shampoo and conditioner bottles
- Margarine/butter and yoghurt pots
- Smoothie bottles
- Bleach bottles (please ensure these are rinsed out well)
No thanks:
- Plastic bags
- Plastic film
- Any cartons – such as milk / juice
- Tetra pak cartons (these can be taken to many HWRCs)
- Plastic plant pot tubs/trays
- Plastic piping
- Polystyrene
- Cling film
Cans
Yes please:
- Empty aerosols cans – no spray paints please
- Food and drink cans or tins
- Pet food cans
- Metal bottle tops
No thanks:
- Foil
- Milk bottle tops
- Take away foil containers
- Pie foil containers
- Foil sweet wrappers
- Oil drums
- Paint tins
- Car batteries
- Pet food sachets
- Crisp packets
Please don't put any other kind of rubbish into your brown bin and remember not to over fill it.
This is a trial scheme and we hope to extend it to all properties over the next few years, but we do recommend that you put your house number on your brown bin so it isn't returned to another property in error.
