Sutton: which bins go out tonight?
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What Sutton collects
Food waste
Food waste
What goes in:
- all uneaten food and plate scrapings
- fruit and vegetables (raw vegetables, cooked vegetables, whole fruit, peelings)
- cooked and raw meat, chicken, fish and bones
- rice, pasta and beans
- bread, cakes, pastries
- cheese and eggs
- tea bags, loose tea coffee grounds
- cut flowers
What doesn't go in:
- plastic bags
- packaging of any kind
- liquids such as milk
- oil or liquid fat
- garden waste
Sutton says: You should line your small kitchen caddy with compostable liners (available to buy in supermarkets) or old newspapers.
Source: www.sutton.gov.uk
Paper and cardboard
Paper & card
What goes in:
- newspapers and magazines
- card and cardboard
- toilet and kitchen roll tubes
- egg boxes
What doesn't go in:
- plastic bags
- dirty cardboard (e.g. food-stained pizza boxes)
- food and drink cartons
- disposable face masks
- tissue paper
- shredded paper (unless it's put in a paper bag or envelope)
- general waste
Sutton says: All paper and cardboard should be clean and dry.
Source: www.sutton.gov.uk
Mixed recycling or cans
Plastics, glass, cans and cartons
What goes in:
- plastic bottles
- plastic pots, tubs and trays
- glass jars and bottles
- cans, tins, aerosols and tin foil
- food and drink cartons
What doesn't go in:
- plastic bags
- plastic film
- rigid plastic (toys, plant pots etc)
Sutton says: Please remember to rinse out any food or drink containers before putting them in your recycling box.
Source: www.sutton.gov.uk
Rubbish
General waste
What goes in:
- non-recyclable rubbish
- wet or dirty cardboard (e.g. food-stained pizza boxes)
- plastic bags and film (please check if you can recycle these at your local supermarket)
- polystyrene
- nappies
What doesn't go in:
- recycling or food waste
- electrical items (see Small items recycling collection)
- batteries
- gas canisters
- DIY / building waste
- hazardous waste - asbestos, oil-based paints, antifreeze, chemicals, petrol
Sutton says: all general waste should be stored in your brown wheelie bin
Source: www.sutton.gov.uk
Garden waste
garden waste
What goes in:
- grass and hedge clippings
- leaves
- twigs and sticks
- old plants and weeds
- branches up to 22cm (8 inches) diameter
- windfalls eg fallen apples
What doesn't go in:
- bricks, rubble, soil and turf
- plant pots and polystyrene plant containers
- animal waste and animal bedding
- general garden rubbish and tools
- old garden waste sacks or other plastic sacks
- bags or sacks (including compostable bags)
- large branches (over 30cm in diameter)
- japanese Knotweed
- wire, string, plastic or metal
- liquids (e.g. paint, pesticides, weed killers)
- food waste
Sutton says: your garden waste must be at the boundary of your property by 6:00 am on the day of collection; if the bin or sack is not there when the crew arrive, they will not collect it until the next collection day; put the garden waste directly into the bin - you don’t need to put it in other bags; if your bin has anything other than garden waste inside it, it will not be emptied; make sure your bin is not too heavy to be moved by the crew; don’t overfill the bin - the lid should close easily; don’t leave extra garden waste next to the bin - it will not be collected. There should be no sacks placed within the container(s). All garden waste should be placed loose inside the container(s). No side waste will be collected i.e. extra waste next to the bin or balanced on the lid, or next to the sack. The Contractor shall be under no obligation to provide a collection if: The container is not presented at your property boundary closest to the highway, by 6am on collection day; The container contents are contaminated, overflowing or overweight (over 25kg); The container is damaged and emptying it would pose a health and safety risk; and If the container is presented in such a way that it would pose a risk of being damaged by the Council’s equipment (for example, excessive overflow of waste, as such, which would prevent the lid from closing).
Source: www.sutton.gov.uk · www.sutton.gov.uk · www.sutton.gov.uk
What Sutton says about bin day
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Sutton says food-stained pizza boxes go in general waste, not paper and card.
From Sutton's website (checked 2026-10-18)
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Sutton says food and drink cartons go in your recycling box, not with paper and card.
From Sutton's website (checked 2026-10-18)
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Sutton says shredded paper can't go in paper and card unless it's put in a paper bag or envelope.
From Sutton's website (checked 2026-10-18)
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