Mixed recycling or cans
green recycling bin
What goes in:
- Cardboard – cereal boxes, egg boxes, other cardboard packaging (remove tape), toilet roll tubes
- Catalogues, brochures, telephone directories
- Greetings cards (no glitter)
- Newspapers, magazines, paperback books
- Paper – junk mail, envelopes (includes window envelopes but not padded envelopes), brown paper and writing paper (not shredded, or ripped up paper smaller than a receipt)
- Wrapping paper (no glitter or shiny paper. Do the crumple test: scrunch it into a ball and if it maintains the crumpled shape, it's recyclable).
- Aerosol cans
- Cans and tins - food and drink
- Cartons, including Tetra Pak
- Large tins (not large metal sweet tins)
- Plastic bottles (including lids/spray bottle tops) – milk, water, soft drinks, laundry and household cleaning bottles, beauty product bottles
- Plastic tubs and pots – clean yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, ice cream tubs
- Plastic trays - fruit punnets, plastic egg boxes, ready meal food trays (not if black in colour), cooked sandwich meat/ sliced cheese packets
- Plastic tubes - toothpaste tubes
- Plastic plant pots (not if black in colour) - make sure pots are clean from soil. Ceramic and compostable types are not accepted.
- Foil (scrunched into a ball)
- Metal food trays
- Metal tubes - tomato puree tubes, hand cream
- Batteries* Please put in a plastic bag on top of your general/recycling waste bin on collection day (not including car batteries or industrial batteries)
What doesn't go in:
- Bagged waste – please leave your recycling items loose in the bin
- Black plastic trays/ pots
- Cardboard takeaway packaging (due to food residue)
- Cling film
- Coffee pods
- Crisp packets
- Food and drink waste - tea bags, egg shells, plate scrapings etc
- Garden waste – Grass cuttings, hedge trimmings etc will need to go in your brown bin (subscribe to collections).
- Glass – please put clean glass and jars in your glass collection box. Place loose lids in your general waste bin.
- Large metal biscuit/sweet tins
- Light bulbs
- Medicine blister packs
- Mirrors
- Nappies
- Paper Tissue
- Padded envelopes
- Paint tins
- Pet food pouches
- Plastic carrier bags, bin liners
- Polystyrene
- Pyrex
- Shredded paper
- Sticky labels
- Textiles
- Vapes
- Wallpaper
Gedling says: Items placed in your green recycling bin must be empty, clean and loose. Do not put any items in plastic bags before placing it in your recycling bin.
Source: www.gedling.gov.uk