Steel and aluminium (Yellow Bank)

Please do put in:

• Food cans(tins)
• Drink cans
• Metal lids
• Aluminium foil or containers

Please don't put in:

• Other types of metal, for example brass or copper

What else should you do?

• Please rinse cans and crush them if possible
• You don’t need to take off the labels

Glass bottles and jars (White, Brown, and Green)

Please do put in:

• White: clear glass
• Brown: brown glass
• Green: green and blue glass

Please don't put in:

• Window panes
• Pyrex dishes
• Spectacles

What else should you do?

• Please rinse jars before recycling them
• You don’t need to take off the labels

Plastic bottles (Orange)

Please do put in:

All plastic bottles, for example:

• fizzy drinks bottles
• water bottles
• shampoo bottles

You can also recycle any plastic that is Type 1 (PET) or Type 2 (HDPE).

Check the bottle to find out if it’s one of these types.

Please don't put in:

Please don’t put any other kind of plastic in this bank, for example:

• Type 3 (PVC)
• Type 4 (LDPE)
• Type 5 (PP)
• Type 6 (PS)
• Type 7 (other)

What else should you do?

• Please rinse and squash plastic bottles
• You can put lids in too, but please separate them from the bottle

Textiles (Various colours including red, orange, green and purple banks)

Please do put in:

• Clothes
• Towels
• Paired shoes
• Curtains
• Sheets

Please don't put in:

• Oil-stained clothes
• Unwashed clothes
• Single shoes
• Carpets and rugs

What else should you do?

• You can put ripped or torn clothes into the bank. We can recycle them into new products such as wiping cloths.

Paper and cardboard (Blue)

Please do put in:

• Paper
• Cardboard
• Cardboard juice cartons, for example Tetra Paks
• Telephone directories
• Magazines

Please don't put in:

• Plastic wrapping
• Padded envelopes
• Sweet or crisp wrappers
• Plastics - no bin liners or black bags
• General waste

What else should you do?

• Please crush any large boxes before putting them into the bank