What Goes In Your Recycling Bin
- Glass bottles and jars
- Tin, steel, and aluminium cans
Plastic bottles (grades 1, 2, and 5) from your kitchen, bathroom, and laundry
- Plastic food containers (grades 1, 2, and 5)
- Newspapers, magazines, and advertising mail
- Paper and cardboard, including empty pizza boxes, egg cartons, and window envelopes.
How To Recycle Right
You can recycle grocery packaging containers made of plastic, glass, metal and cardboard. Simply empty and rinse all your containers and place them loose in your recycling bin, together with flattened paper and cardboard from your home.
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Recycling Lids
What to do
- Take all lids off containers.
- Put lids in the rubbish bin.
Why?
- Lids left on can trap leftover food or liquids inside.
- If lids are left on it can contaminate paper or cardboard.
- Lids popping off can hurt recycling workers.
Types of lids to remove
Flat lids from ice cream tubs, margarine tubs, and some takeaway containers.
These lids can be mistaken for sheets of paper by sorting machinery. As a result, they may accidentally enter the paper recycling stream during the sorting process.
Small lids from bottles and jars.
These lids are too small and can trap liquids inside the container, which is unsafe for workers.
Exceptions
- Lids on fruit punnets
- Shampoo bottle lids
- Tin cans
To recycle tin can lids, rinse them and squash the lid inside the can.
Recycling Soft Plastics And Plastic Bags
These can’t go in your recycling bin, but you’re right in thinking they can be recycled!
Soft plastics – including plastic bags, courier bags and chip packets – can be dropped off at your local supermarket or retailers who are part of the Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme.
