Find out if your item can be recycled
Non-hazardous waste
- Aerosols
- Books
- Beverage cartons
- Cans - food and drink
- Cardboard - large producers
- Chemical drums
- Flat glass
- Foil
- Food - residential only
- Furniture
- Garden waste
- Glass (domestic)
- Paper & card
- Plastic bags - Films
- Plastic bottles - hard plastics
- Polystyrene
- Scrap metal
- Textiles - clothes & shoes
- Wood & timber
Hazardous (or potentially hazardous) waste
There is a legal requirement to recycle or dispose of these items appropriately.
- Asbestos
- Batteries
- Car batteries
- Chemicals / Hazardous materials
- Clinical waste
- Cooking oil - vegetable oil
- Confidential waste
- Electrical - PCs, fridges, freezers, anything with a plug
- Engine oil - mineral oil
- Clean, broken lab glass
- Lamps
- Paint
- Plasterboard
- Printer cartridges
- Reagent bottles - Winchesters
- Tyres