Caerphilly: which bins go out tonight?
Find your bin collection schedule, what goes in each bin, and when it's collected in Caerphilly.
Use the app to enter your postcode and get tonight's answer.
What Caerphilly collects
Mixed recycling or cans
brown recycling bin
What goes in:
- Your brown bin (or in some cases recycling box) is to be used for all recyclable materials.
What doesn't go in:
- Any non-recycling waste found is classed as contamination, and your bin / box will not be collected. For further information, please visit our contamination page.
- Cards with glitter
- Foil wrapping paper
- Wallpaper
- DIY and chemical bottles
- Paint containers
- Plastic sheet
- Polystyrene
- Toys and other hard plastic
- Carrier bags
- CDS and DVDs
- Coat hangers
- Food contaminated aluminium foil
- Scrap metal
- Cutlery
- Pots and pans
- Cardboard covered in food / oil
- Wet cardboard
- Broken glass
- Crockery
- Pyrex
- Visionware
- Window glass
- We do not accept soft plastics in our recycling bins. But you can take soft plastics to most local supermarkets.
- Clothing should not be in your recycling bin. Clothing banks are available at our household waste recycling centres.
Source: beta.caerphilly.gov.uk
Food and garden waste
food waste caddy
What goes in:
- Fruit
- Vegetables
- Mouldy or stale bread
- Teabags
- Egg shells
- Meat and fish
- Pet food
- Bones
- Dairy products
- Rice
- Pasta
- Leftover food
- Cereal
- Leaves
- Dead flowers
- Small shrubs
- Weeds
- Grass cutting
- Twigs
- Hedge cuttings
What doesn't go in:
- Packaging
- Liquids (for example milk)
- Oil (for example cooking oil)
- Any material that is not food waste
- Japanese knotweed
- Food
- Earth clods
- Stones
- Rubble
- Soil
- Wood
- Bulky garden waste - We will not collect bulky garden waste such as trees and branches as part of your weekly collection service. Visit bulky garden waste for options for disposing of these items.
Source: beta.caerphilly.gov.uk
Rubbish
green bin (or in some cases black bin)
What goes in:
- Disposable nappies
- Broken glass
- Carrier bags
- Broken toys
- Polystyrene
- Plastic film
- Pet waste
- Cold ash
What doesn't go in:
- All waste must be contained within your bin with the lid tightly closed (no side waste will be taken).
- Clothing
- Anything that can be recycled
- Food waste
- Garden waste
- Stones, rubble, soil or building materials
- Car parts or batteries
- Engine oil, paint or chemicals
- Tree branches
- Hazardous waste (for example clinical waste)
- Hot ashes - please allow them to cool
- Anything too large to fit easily in the bin.
Source: beta.caerphilly.gov.uk
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