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These items can go in your brown bin:

✅ Grass cuttings (permit required)
✅ Flowers and plants (permit required)
✅ Weeds (permit required)
✅ Leaves (permit required)
✅ Small branches and twigs (permit required)
✅ Cooked and uncooked food
✅ Leftovers
✅ Fruit and vegetable peelings
✅ Tea bags and coffee grounds
✅ Egg shells
✅ Out of date food (remove packaging)
✅ Bread, pasta and cakes
✅ Meat, fish and small bones

Do not put these items in your brown bin:

❌ Plastic bags
❌ Packaging
❌ Liquids
❌ Fats and oils
❌ Rubble and soil
❌ Plant pots
❌ Wood and fencing
❌ Garden furniture
❌ Plastics, cans and glass
❌ Paper, card and cardboard
❌ Batteries
❌ Vapes

These items can go in your blue bin:

✅ Cardboard (flattened)
✅ Cereal boxes
✅ Large brown cardboard boxes
✅ Corrugated cardboard
✅ Toilet and kitchen roll tubes
✅ Cardboard packaging
✅ Paper (clean and dry)
✅ Envelopes (with and without windows)
✅ Magazines
✅ Newspapers
✅ Office paper
✅ Telephone directories
✅ Paperback books
✅ Catalogues
✅ Junk mail and takeaway menus

Do not put these items in your blue bin:

❌ Glass
❌ Plastics and cans
❌ Hardback books
❌ Plastic carrier bags
❌ Padded envelopes
❌ Plastic wrapping and bubble wrap
❌ Polystyrene
❌ Packaging with food residue
❌ Used tissues and kitchen roll
❌ Foil wrapping paper
❌ Tinfoil
❌ Shredded paper