Household waste - domestic bins

What should go in your wheeled bins

Green Bin

Yes please

  • Grass cuttings
  • Clipping
  • Leaves
  • Hedge clippings and small branches
  • Cut flowers
  • Plants and weeds
  • windfalls
  • Bark

 

No thanks

  • Plastic/sacks/bags
  • Cardboard
  • Household Rubbish
  • Peelings or other food waste
  • Newspaper or magazines
  • Clothes
  • Nappies
  • Animal waste
  • Plant pots
  • Ash
  • Treated wood
  • Stones, soil and turf

 

Black bin

  • Non recyclables

 

Please remember your wheeled bin needs to be put out for collection by 6am

If you have your bin out for the collection time and it does not get emptied, please ring Customer Services 0845 1211 555 or fill in the contact us form.

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