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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

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