In your food waste bin or caddy, you can put:

• fruit and vegetables
• meat, fish and bones
• tea bags and coffee grounds
• bread and pastries
• dairy products
• rice, pasta and beans
• eggs and eggshells
• cooked and leftover food

You can line your caddies or put food waste straight in. If you do line your caddy please either use compostable liners or, thanks to new technology, plastic bags that are coming to the end of their life. Please don’t use black bin bags to line your caddy. 

If you live in a housing estate with a communal food waste bin, then please line your green kitchen caddy with a compostable liner  or a plastic bag (as long as it’s not black)

You can put anything which can’t be recycled in your rubbish bin, bags or boxes, including:  

• clingfilm
• cellophane
• sanitary products
• dog poo and cat litter
• crisp packets
• polystyrene
• nappies – a nappy collection service is also available
• broken glass – carefully wrapped, so that it is not dangerous to collect
• Single-use face coverings and masks

We won’t collect DIY rubbish such as rubble and plasterboard. 

You must arrange separate collections for bulky waste, white goods and furniture.

Communal (mostly on estates) rubbish collections

If you live on a housing estate, or block  with  shared rubbish bins, then please put all appropriate rubbish (including nappies ) in the rubbish bins provided.  This will help keep your bin area clean and safe for everyone. 

If your recycling or food waste bins contain items that shouldn’t be there, we won’t be able to take them. We will leave a note or sticker on the bin asking you to remove the wrong items before the next collection.

Contaminated recycling costs us lots of money so we're strict about what we accept.

Find out more about recycling contamination