What goes in which bin?

Recycling - what goes in your green bin?

Keep your recycling loose. Please do not put plastic bags or bin liners in your green bin.

Make sure your recycling is clean - you can rinse it in your used dish water when you've finished washing up, just make sure all the left over food/liquid has been rinsed out.

Too much recycling for the bin? View our useful tips on our Too much for the bin page.

Expand each heading below for more information.

YES please

  • Food tins
  • Clean kitchen foil used for cooking, wrapping food, etc.
  • Clean foil trays, e.g. from ready meals or pies
  • Foil chocolate or sweet wrappers - check they’re not plastic-coated
  • Foil lids from yoghurt pots or cream tubs 
  • Pet food tins
  • Drink cans
  • Aerosos
  • Sweet and biscuit tins
  • Metal lids from jars and bottles

Please remember

  • food and drinks cans only
  • no other types of metals e.g. saucepans, cutlery, tools
  • please don't flatten cans
  • please make sure all items are clean
  • push sharp lids into cans
  • separate plastic lids off aerosols and put them in your recycling bin loose
  • no foil pouches or coffee pods – these need to go in your black/grey bin.
  • no crisp packets or sweet wrappers
  • tip: labels can be left on
  • no gas bottles

YES please

  • glass food and drinks bottles
  • glass food and drinks jars
  • fragrance bottles
  • moisturiser jars
  • make up jars

Please remember

  • Rinse bottles and jars - you can rinse them in your dishwasher when you've finished washing up, just make sure all the leftover food/liquid has been rinsed out
  • glass bottles and jars only
  • pump tops need to be removed and put in your black/grey bin
  • if your kerbside collection is done via a sack, please do not put glass in.
  • glass recycling points are available at the household recycling centres
  • no need to remove labels
  • lids can be left on
  • all colours of glass are accepted
  • no drinking glasses, pyrex, window glass etc
  • no nail varnish bottles

YES please

All plastic bottles, including:
  • soft drinks
  • milk/juice
  • detergent/fabric conditioner
  • cleaning spray
  • bleach
  • shampoo and conditioner
  • shower gel
  • Toothpaste tubes
  • Cosmetic tubes, e.g. hand cream, face wash, etc
  • Pump-action toothpaste tubes
  • Metal or foil-lined tubes, e.g. tomato puree  

Plastic tubs:

  • margarine
  • ice cream
  • plastic pots:
  • yoghurt
  • cream
  • jelly
  • custard
  • plant pots (not black)
  • plastic trays:
  • fruit punnets
  • meat trays
  • ready meal trays
  • cake trays
  • egg boxes

Please remember

  • no black plastic
  • please wash out where possible
  • don't flatten plastic packaging
  • bottle tops can be included – just screw the lid back onto the bottle after you've cleaned it
  • no pump tops or trigger sprays
  • children's toys, garden containers, bins, water butts
  • no film
  • no plastic bags
  • no crisp wrappers or sweet wrappers
  • no hard plastics

YES please

  • newspaper and magazines
  • phone books
  • catalogues/brochures
  • junk mail/ leaflets
  • letters
  • greetings cards
  • envelopes
  • shredded paper (contained within another paper item e.g. cereal box, envelope, paper bag)

Please remember

  • keep paper flat
  • remove any plastic wrappers
  • no glittery cards or wrapping paper
  • no sticky paper e.g labels
  • you can compost your shredded paper in your home compost bin too
  • no metallic/ film coated wrapping paper
  • no dirty/ stained paper

YES please

  • milk/ juice/ smoothies
  • fabric conditioner
  • soup/passata
  • custard
  • UHT milk

Please remember

  • please flatten cartons
  • remove lids-these can be put into your recycling bin separately
  • plastic spouts can be left on

YES please

  • cardboard packing
  • cereal boxes
  • ready meal card sleeves
  • egg boxes
  • kitchen roll tubes
  • toilet roll tubes
  • toothpaste boxes
  • dishwater tablet boxes
  • pet food boxes

Please remember

  • flatten cardboard boxes and tubes
  • no contaminated packaging e.g. food waste in takeaway pizza boxes
  • Remove inner packaging – film, bags and polystyrene need to go into your black/grey bin

Garden waste

Have you signed up yet?

You can sign up and find out more information on The Depot's garden waste page.

YES please

  • Grass cuttings
  • Hedge and shrub clippings
  • Leaves, twigs, and bark
  • Small plants and weeds
  • Cut flowers

NO thanks

  • Food waste
  • Animal waste (bedding/litter/faeces)
  • Plastic bags/pots/trays
  • Brick/rubble/stones
  • Soil/turf
  • Tree stumps
  • Large branches (over 10cm/4in in diameter)

Rubbish

YES please

  • All unrecyclable household waste

NO thanks

All rubbish disposed of through black/grey bins is sent for incineration at EnviRecover energy from waste facility based on Hartlebury Trading Estate.

The process

Watch a video from Envirosort on how your recycling is sorted to find out more.

Please remember

  • No textiles in your green bin - you can recycle at your local household waste site (tip) or at re-use organisations, charity shops and recycling sites where it can be donated for re-use/recycling
  • No plastic bags in your green bin - anything contained within a plastic bag will be rejected at the recycling sorting plant to landfill. Our crews will not empty green or brown bins that contain bagged waste or waste that is not recyclable. Bags (including cereal bags, bread bags, fruit and veg bags) can be recycled through supermarket plastic bags recycling facilities
  • No car batteries or other batteries - these can be recycled at your local household waste site (tip) or other smaller batteries can be taken to 'battery tubes/tubs' located in many shops and public buildings around Wyre Forest
  • No gas canisters

Book bulky waste collection Recycling Guide (MSWord 48KB)

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