Cans
Please put all food, drink and pet cans into your:
Cardboard packaging
Please put this into your:
If you have larger cardboard, please flat pack and place beside the recycling trolley or blue-top bin for collection.
Carpets and rugs
Carpets and rugs can be:
Cartons (food, drinks, detergents)
Please put these into your:
CDs
Unwanted CD's and plastic cases can be recycled via the bric-a-brac banks at Recycling Centres.
Christmas tree
As garden waste collections begin in March each year, please take real trees to your nearest Recycling Centre and place into the green garden waste recycling container.
Cling film
Please put this into your:
- red-top bin if you are using the new bin collection service, or
- green bin
Clothes
All items of clean, bagged clothing, including shoes, can be:
Coffee pods
Used plastic and aluminium coffee pods can be recycled with Podback, the pod recycling service. There are drop-off points at our Recycling Centres and in selected local supermarkets.
Find out how to recycle coffee pods with Podback
Computers
These can be traded in against a new product or alternatively take to your nearest Recycling Centre for recycling.
Compost
All green garden waste collected by us is converted into a soil improver, which can then be collected by residents, free of charge, from the Recycling Centres via our Compost to go scheme.
Cookers
All redundant white goods should be recycled. You can take these to:
Cooking oil
Used cooking oil can be recycled at the Recycling Centres. Collected oil is recycled into a biodiesel product.
Crisp bags
Please put these into your:
- red-top bin if you are using the new bin collection service, or
- green bin
Cutlery
Please take any usable cutlery to your nearest charity shop, or put it into your green bin.
Cylinders
Butane gas cylinders can be taken to your nearest Recycling Centre.