Reminder of accepted Green Bin and Blue Box materials

Green Bin

Blue Box

·   Animal waste, litter, bedding and fur

·   Baking ingredients

·   Bird seed

·   Boxboard (soiled)

·   Bread

·   Candy and confectionary products

·   Candy wrapper, paper

·   Cardboard (soiled)

·   Dairy Products

·   Diapers

·   Cereal

·   Coffee grinds, filters and tea bags

·   Consumable food

·   Eggs and egg shells

·   Facial Tissue

·   Feathers

·   Fish and shellfish

·   Flour and sugar bags

·   Flowers (dried and fresh cut)

·   Food products (consumable)

·   Fruit

·   Hair

·   Houseplants

·   Incontinence products

·   Kraft paper (meat wrap)

·   Meat products (bones, fat, skin)

·   Microwave popcorn bag

·   Moulded pulp, e.g. egg carton, carry-out tray (soiled)

·   Muffin wrappers

·   Nail clippings

·   Newspaper (soiled)

·   Paper cups and paper plates (soiled)

·   Paper towels

·   Pasta

·   Pet food

·   Polycoat containers, e.g. ice cream container (soiled)

·   Sanitary products

·   Sawdust

·   Spices

·   Vegetables

·   Aerosol cans (empty)

·   Aluminium foil, plates, trays

·   Antifreeze bottles

·   Baby wipe containers

·   Bakery trays & clamshells (plastic)

·   Books (paperback & hardcover with cover removed)

·   Bottles (glass and plastic)

·   Boxboard/Bristol board

·   Brown paper bags

·   Calendars

·   Cans (food and drink)

·   Cardboard boxes (flattened)

·   Cards (paper only)

·   Cereal boxes

·   Coffee cups (without lids)

·   Cookie tins

·   Detergent bottles

·   Drink boxes (no straws)

·   Egg cartons/flats (moulded pulp/plastic)

·   Envelopes/File folders

·   Flyers/Junk mail

·   Frozen food boxes

·   Frozen juice containers

·   Gable top containers, e.g. milk cartons

·   Gift wrap (paper)

·   Glossy flyers/Greeting cards

·   Household cleaning product containers

·   Household paper

·   Ice cream tubs

·   Index cards

·   Javex bottles (empty)

·   Jugs and jars (plastic and glass)

·   Juice cartons

·   Kraft paper

·   Magazines

·   Manila envelopes

·   Margarine tubs (and lids)

·   Metal cans & containers

·   Microwaveable plastic food trays

·      (#1 & #5)

·   Milk cartons

·   Newspapers

·   Newsprint

·   Office paper and pads

·   Packaging (paper)

·   Paint cans (empty, lids off)

·   Paper bags

·   Paper cups (without lid)

·   Paper milk or juice cartons

·   Paper towel rolls

·   Papers

·   Pizza boxes

·   Plastic bottles (#1 to #7)

·   Plastic detergent bottles

·   Plastic pails (up to 1 gallon)

·   Plastic plant pots/ plant trays

·   Plastic trays

·   Plastic tubs & lids (#1 to #7)

·   Polycoat containers

·   Pop cans

·   Post it notes/Posters

·   Reports

·   Rigid plastic bottles / Rigid plastic tubs

·   Sandwich boxes (disposable)

·   Shampoo bottles

·   Shoe boxes

·   Take-out food containers  (empty and clean)

·   Telephone books

·   Tetra paks

·   Tin cans

·   Toilet paper rolls

·   Trays (plastic  or aluminium)

·   Vellum

·   Water bottles

·   Wide mouth containers

·   Windshield washer bottles

·   Wrapping paper (non-metallic)

·   Writing paper

·   Yogurt tubs