What you need to know
Let's recycle right
Top tips:
- Never put recyclables in plastic bags in your yellow-lid recycling bin.
- Empty and clean recyclables first.
- To recycle hard/rigid plastics check the resin code number at the bottom of the bottle/tray. Only codes 1, 2 & 5 can be recycled through your yellow-lid recycling bin.
- Materials labelled with plastic/resin codes 3, 4, 6 & 7 should be put in your red-lid general waste bin.
- e-waste means waste in the form of electrical or electronic equipment, devices or things (or materials or parts of such equipment, devices or things), the operation of which is dependent on, or designed for the generation, transfer or measurement of, an electric current or electromagnetic field.
- Always wrap broken material (such as glass, ceramics, pyrex, etc) in paper before putting in your red-lid general waste bin or bringing to the Transfer Station. These must be labelled if brought to the Transfer Station.
Use our A- Z recycling guide to learn how to dispose of your item correctly.
A
B
- Baby monitors
- Bag (green/enviro)
- Bag (plastic shopping bag)
- Baking paper
- Balloons (plastic or foil)
- Bandages and Band-Aids
- Barbeques (excluding gas bottles)
- Baskets (laundry)
- Batteries AA, AAA, C, D, 6V, 9V, button etc (household)
- Batteries – rechargeable (laptop, tools, mobile phones etc.)
- Bicycles – in good working order/condition
- Bicycles – in poor condition
- Biscuit packet (wrapper only)
- Biscuit trays (plastic)
- Blankets and bedding
- Bluetooth speakers and headphones
- Bones – meat, poultry
- Books
- Bottle tops (plastic)
- Bottle tops/lids (metal)
- Branches (large)
- Brass
- Bread bag tags
- Bricks
- Broken glass (bottles /jars)
- Broken glass (drinking glasses/window glass)
- Bubble wrap (coloured)
- Bubble wrap (non-coloured)
- Bundle Branches
- Butcher paper
C
- Cables
- Cameras & accessories
- Cans (steel, aluminium)
- Cardboard (flattened)
- Carpet and underlay
- Cartridges (printer/toner)
- Car seats
- Car tyres
- Cassettes (video and audio)
- Cat litter/pet waste
- CDs and DVDs – including cases
- CD and DVD players
- Cellophane
- Cement/Concrete
- Ceramic and crockery
- Chemicals (household)
- Christmas tree (artificial)
- Christmas tree (natural)
- Cigarette butts
- Clean takeaway containers (cardboard)
- Cling wrap
- Clothing (fabric)
- Clothing (unwearable)
- Clothing (wearable)
- Coat hangers
- Coffee cups (paper and plastic)
- Coffee cup lids
- Coffee grounds
- Coffee pods
- Computer and accessories
- Cooking oil
- Copper
- Corks
- Cots and basinets
- Cotton wool balls
- Crockery/china
- Cutlery (plastic)
E
F
G
K
L
M
O
P
- Paint
- Paint tins (empty, metal)
- Paint Tins (empty, plastic)
- Pain tins (empty, steel only)
- Paper
- Paper towel (used)
- Pet food tins/cans (metal and cleaned)
- Phone books
- Pillows
- Pizza boxes (empty with no grease)
- Pizza boxes (food residue/greasy)
- Plant pots (plastic)
- Plastic bags (coloured exclude resin code 4)
- Plastic bottles (squashed)
- Plastic food containers
- Plastic trays
- Plastic wrappers (eg. chip packets)
- Plastic (rigid/hard)
- Polystyrene/Styrofoam
- Portable chargers/power banks
- Pots and pans lids (glass)
- Pots and pans (metal)
- Prams
- Printers
- PVC pipe
- Pyrex ovenware (broken)
- Pyrex ovenware (intact)
S
- Scrap metal
- Shampoo and conditioner bottles
- Shellfish
- Shells/Shellfish – oyster, crab, mussel etc
- Shoes
- Shredded paper
- Smart watches
- Smoke alarm (chord/wire operated)
- Smoke alarm (household battery powered) with batteries removed
- Soft Plastics
- Soil
- Solvents
- Stationery – pens, markers, clip folders
- Steel cans
- Sticky tape
- Straws (plastic)
- Syringes