The A to Z of waste items and which bin they should go in
210 items found
- Aerosol tins
- Air freshener (aerosol)
- Aluminium foil
- Aluminium trays
- Animal waste
- Asbestos
- Ash
- Baby wipes
- Baking tray
- Balloons
- Batteries (household)
- Biscuit tins (metal)
- Blister packs
- Bottle tops
- Bricks
- Brochures
- Bubble wrap
- Buckets (plastic)
- Butter tubs
- Car battery
- Cardboard, cardboard boxes and packaging
- Carpets
- Carrier bags
- Cartons (eg Tetra Pak)
- Cartridges for printers
- Cat litter
- CDs
- Cereal boxes
- Cleaning product bottle (plastic)
- Cling film
- Clinical waste
- Clothes
- Coat hangers - Metal
- Coat Hangers - plastic
- Coffee cups (disposable)
- Coffee grounds
- Coffee machine pods
- Computers
- Cooked food
- Cooking oil
- Cosmetic bottles (glass)
- Cosmetic bottles (plastic)
- Crisp bags
- Crisp tubes
- Dead flowers or plants
- Deodorant can
- Detergent bottles
- Dog waste
- Drainage pipes
- Drinking glasses
- Drinks cans
- Drinks carton
- Duvets
- DVDs
- Egg boxes
- Egg shells
- Electricals
- Energy saving light bulbs
- Envelopes (including windows)
- Face wipes
- Fibreglass
- Fireworks
- Fish and chip boxes
- Fish bones
- Flares
- Fluorescent tubes
- Food bags (poly)
- Food tins
- Food trays (plastic, not polystyrene)
- Food trays (polystyrene)
- Food waste
- Fridges and freezers
- Fruit peelings
- Furniture
- Furniture polish can
- Garden waste (organic)
- Gas cylinders
- Glass (bottles and jars)
- Glass panes
- Greeting cards (containing glitter)
- Greeting cards (without glitter)
- Grey bags
- Grey plastic trays
- Hairspray (aerosol)
- Hand wash bottle
- Hardback books
- Hardcore
- Hazardous chemicals
- Helium gas bottles and cylinders
- Inhalers
- Ink cartridges
- Jam jar lids
- Japanese knotweed
- Jewellery
- Jiffy bags
- Junk mail
- Kitchen paper towels
- Knives
- Laminated paper
- Large tubes
- Laundry basket
- Lead acid batteries
- Leaves
- Light bulbs (energy saving)
- Light bulbs (filament)
- Magazines
- Meat bones
- Meat trays (metal)
- Medicines
- Metallic wrapping paper
- Metals
- Milk bottles (plastic)
- Mobile phones
- Nappies (disposable)
- Needles
- Newspapers
- Oil containers (plastic)
- Ointment creams or medicine tubes (metal/plastic)
- Out of date food
- Padded envelopes
- Paint / Paint tins
- Painted paper or card
- Pans
- Paper
- Paper napkins
- Paperback books
- Pesticides
- Pet food
- Pet food pouches
- Phone books
- Photos
- Pill and Tablet blister packs
- Pill and Tablet bottles (plastic)
- Pillows
- Pills and Tablets
- Pizza boxes
- Plant pots (ceramic)
- Plant pots (plastic)
- Plasterboard
- Plastic bottle caps or lids
- Plastic bottles
- Plastic carrier bags
- Plastic cups (disposable)
- Plastic netting
- Plastic straws
- Plastic trays
- Plastic tubes
- Plastic tubs
- Plastic wrapping or film
- Polystyrene
- Polystyrene expanded (EPS)
- Pressurised containers (includes gas bottles such as LPG and camping gas, fire extinguishers only)
- Pyrex glass
- Rags (clean)
- Ragwort
- Rechargeable batteries
- Recyclable material that is contaminated
- Rubble
- Sandwich packets
- Sanitary products
- Sauce bottles (glass)
- Sauce bottles (plastic)
- Scrap metal
- Shampoo bottles
- Sheet glass
- Shoes
- Shredded paper
- Small electrical appliances
- Smoke alarms
- Soft plastic tubes (such as toothpaste)
- Soil
- Spectacles
- Stone
- Straws (plastic /paper)
- Sweet packets (plastic)
- Sweet tin (metal)
- Sweet tin (plastic)
- Syringes
- Tea bags
- Textiles
- Tin foil
- Tissues
- Toilet roll tubes
- Toner
- Toothbrushes
- Toothpaste tubes
- Toys
- Turf
- Tyres
- Uncooked food
- Underlay
- Vegetable oil
- Vegetable peelings
- Vegetables
- Video cases
- Video tapes
- Vinyl flooring
- Wallpaper
- Water filters
- Weeds
- Wet wipes
- White Bin bags
- Windowpanes
- Wood
- Wooden flooring
- Wool
- Wrapping paper
- Wrapping paper (with plastic content)
- Yellow Pages
- Yoghurt pots
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