What You CAN Recycle
What Can Go In
Your yellow-lidded recycling bin is most commonly used for everyday household packaging items that can be found in your bathroom, kitchen or laundry. Placing the wrong items in your yellow-lidded recycling bin, can result in contamination issues and may even cause an entire load of materials to end up going to landfill. Furthermore, non-acceptable items will reduce the value and quality of other recyclable materials collected.
By having a better understanding of what to recycle, we can:
The items listed below CAN be placed in your yellow-lidded recycling bin
Paper and Cardboard
- Advertising material, catalogues & junk mail
- Binder dividers & Index cards
- Books, notepads & writing paper
- Butcher paper, uncoated deli paper, fish and chip paper
- Cane paper
- Cardboard boxes (flattened, unwaxed, clean & dry)
- Cereal boxes
- Egg cartons
- Envelopes (white & manilla)
- Envelopes (with or without plastic windows)
- Glossy brochures & flyers
- Greeting cards
- Newspapers & magazines
- Office, Computer & Photocopy Paper
- Paper bags
- Paper towel roll inserts (empty)
- Phonebooks
- Pizza boxes (food scraped out)
- Shredded paper (if enclosed in an unwaxed cardboard/shoe box or paperbag)
- Tissue boxes
- Toilet paper roll inserts (empty)
- Wrapping paper & gift wrap (no sticky tape)
Plastics (Bottles & Containers)
- Butter & margarine containers (labelled code 5 only)
- Cordial, water & soft drink bottles (labelled codes 1 & 2 only)
- Cream bottles
- Dip containers (labelled code 5 only)
- Ice-cream containers & Yoghurt (labelled code 5 only)
- Laundry detergent & cleaning bottles (labelled codes 1 & 2)
- Meat trays (labelled code 5 only)
- Milk bottles (labelled code 2 only)
- Shampoo bottles (labelled codes 1 & 2 only)
- Strawberry & berry punnets
- Takeaway containers (labelled code 5 only)
Steel
- Aerosol cans (must be empty)
- Food-grade steel cans & tins
- Fruit tins (empty & clean)
- Metal lids from bottles and jars
- Pet food tins (empty & clean)
- Vegetable cans (empty & clean)
Aluminium
- Aluminium cans & tins
- Aluminium foil (empty & clean, scrunch into a ball)
- Aluminium kitchen foil trays
- Soft drink cans