Cardboard
Acceptable Items
Flattened corrugated cardboard
Cardboard cores less than 1.5 metres in length
Unacceptable Items
Plastic Corflute
Cardboard boxes which have not been broken down (unflattened)
Chilltainer (aluminium lined carboard)
Cardboard cores longer than 1.5 metres (please cut down cores longer than this to fit in bin)
Paper
Acceptable Items
Office Paper
Box board (cereal boxes)
Newspaper
Tissue paper
Unacceptable Items
Paper with a plastic laminate (photocopier ream cover)
Non-recyclable paper alternatives (plastic laminate, rock paper)
Ring binders (please remove paper from ring binders before disposing of in here)
Glass
Acceptable Items
Please separate into amber, green and clear colours
Clean glass jars and bottles
Please make sure these are clean and any residual liquid/food is removed
Unacceptable Items
Broken glass
Reinforced glass (car/house window)
Electronics glass
Items with residual liquid/food
Anything that is not a bottle or jar
Plastic Bottles
Acceptable Items
# 1 plastic bottles and containers (PET). Example: plastic drink bottle
# 2 plastic bottles and containers (HDPE) under 10L in size. Example: milk bottle
Please make sure these are clean and any residual liquid/food is removed
Unacceptable Items
Plastic containers with #3, #4, #5, #6 or #7 on it
Plastic items with no numbers on them
Items with residual liquid/food
Plastic Film
Acceptable Items
Clean, clear #4 (LDPE) plastic film
Clean, clear pallet/shrink wrap
Unacceptable Items
Coloured plastic film (any number)
Plastic film which has residual waste on it (food, powder, liquid)
Plastic film which is not clearly LDPE. If the plastic sounds like a crunchy leaf when you crush into a ball, then it is unacceptable.
