Simpler Recycling

Your collection schedule and how you sort your recycling will change to include:

• Weekly food waste collection.
• Paper, cardboard, glass, tins and plastic collected together, every two weeks. This is called mixed recycling.

To help you get started, depending on how we’ll collect your waste, you will get some or all of the following:

• Small silver caddy (bin): For your daily food waste. This is small enough to keep on your kitchen worktop.
• Biodegradable liners: A roll of 26 liners for your silver caddy.
• Brown lockable caddy: A larger caddy to store your food waste outside.
• Clear plastic sacks: For mixed recycling. These can be reordered when you run out.

Food waste

• Put all your food waste into the small lined silver caddy. When the liner is full, tie it up and put it into the bigger brown lockable caddy.
• On collection day, you put your lockable brown food caddy out. And either your general (black bagged) waste or your mixed (clear sack) recycling.

Mixed recycling

• Place your paper, cardboard, glass, tins, and plastics together into the clear sack or blue lid bin. You no longer need to separate these items.
• Put your recycling out with your food waste (brown lockable bin).

Food waste

• Put all your food waste into the small lined silver caddy. When the liner is full, tie it up and put it into a communal food recycling bin.

Mixed recycling

• Place your paper, cardboard, glass, tins, and plastics together in the mixed recycling bin. These should be loose (not in a bag) You don’t need to separate these items.

Note: A leaflet will be provided with your new bins that shows exactly which items go in which bin.

We will collect food and general waste, one week. We will collect food and mixed recycling, the next.

• Week one: Food waste (brown bin) + General waste (black bin or bag).
• Week two: Food waste (brown bin) + Mixed recycling (blue lid bin or clear sack).

The new service begins the week starting from Monday 13 April 2026.

The day of the week we collect your waste or recycling will stay the same.

Households will receive enough plastic sacks to last them for about 6 months. New clear sacks will be able to be ordered from the website in a few months.

Residents can present an unlimited amount of compliant recycling. Not everything can be recycled, so it’s important that you check before you put it out for collection. Non-compliant items contaminate the recycling and will result in your bin not being emptied.

You can recycle paper, cardboard, glass, tins and plastic together.