Items you can bag and leave by your blue top bin
Some items that we take away to be recycled should not be put in the blue top bin if you have that service.
Instead please bag these items.
What goes into the bag?
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Mixed textiles and clothes |
Batteries |
Car batteries |
Used engine oil |
These items should be put in clear plastic bags or sacks, or in labelled plastic bags.
Please put the bags next to the blue top bin on your collection day. They will be picked up the day after your normal recycling collection takes place.
Contents
- From houses and converted flats
- Blue top recycling bin
- General waste bin
- Food waste recycling
- Items you can bag and leave by your blue top bin
- Garden waste service
Things to read
- Assisted collections for the elderly or disabled
- Special collection service
- Where to put your bins for collection
- What you can recycle and where to recycle it
- Holiday period service changes
- Where to put your bins for collection
- What you can recycle and where to recycle it
- Timed waste and recycling collections
- Special collection service
- Home composting
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment
- What happens to your recycling?
- Love your clothes campaign