What goes in the yellow bin?
Goes in the yellow bin
| ✔️ Plastic containers (numbers 1, 2 & 5) | ✔️ Advertising mail and envelopes |
| ✔️ Glass bottles and jars | ✔️ Newspapers and magazines |
| ✔️ Steel, aluminium, and tin cans | ✔️ Paper and cardboard packaging |
| 💡 Take off the lids, rinse out your dirty items, and put them out for recycling. | |
Doesn't go in your yellow bin
No dead animals, no green waste, no building waste. Remember recycling is hand sorted!
| ❌ Plastics 3, 4, 6, and 7 – look for the ♺ triangle on the container to see what type it is |
| ❌ Plastic bags (full or empty) |
| ❌ Aluminium foil or trays |
| ❌ Aerosols, e.g. fly spray or deodorant spray |
| ❌ All types of batteries |
| ❌ Clothing, shoes, and bedding |
| ❌ Food scraps |
| ❌ Lids, tops, carps, pumps, or trigger sprays |
| ❌ Liquid paperboard cartons, e.g. juice cartons |
| ❌ Large plastic or metal cans (more than 4L) |
| ❌ Polystyrene |
| ❌ Clothing, shoes, and bedding |
| ❌ Cookware, pyrex, mirrors, drinking glasses |
| ❌ Electronic/electrical items |
| ❌ Gas bottles and pressurised canisters |
| ❌ Nappies |
| ❌ Medical waste |
| ❌ Garden waste |
| ❌ Building waste |
| ❌ Dead animals |
Learn about what can and can't go in your red kerbside rubbish bin.