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What you can't recycle

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What you can't recycle

When the wrong things are placed in your recycling bin, bag or box it will not be collected.  

Some of the common items that are wrongly placed in with recycling include: 

Your recycling needs to be clean, dry and empty so that it can be collected. 

What happens if the wrong things are in your recycling  

  • it will not be collected and a red tag will be left to say why 
  • if you live in a house, you will have to remove the wrong items from your recycling so that it can be collected on our next visit 

For more support and information on what you can recycle contact Veolia 

Other examples of what shouldn’t go into your recycling bin, bag or box are: 

  • ceramics 
  • coat hangers 
  • cotton wool or makeup pads 
  • crisp packets 
  • cutlery, crockery, pots, and pans 
  • dirty or used tissues and paper towels 
  • glass cookware, Pyrex, ovenware 
  • glitter covered cards or wrapping paper 
  • household batteries 
  • laminated plastic or foil pouches like baby food, cat food, coffee pouches 
  • light bulbs 
  • medicine packs like headache pills 
  • mirrors 
  • paint pots 
  • paper or card stained or dirty with paint, food or grease 
  • plastic toys or other hard plastic items, like garden furniture, buckets and bins 
  • sticky papers like post-it-notes, sticky labels and paper tape 
  • sweet wrappers 
  • toothpaste tubes 
  • wallpaper 
  • window glass 
  • wood 

You can still separately recycle many of these and other items by taking them to Regis Road reuse and recycling centre. 

Check what you can recycle