Commercial Waste - What Goes Where?

Yes please

✔        Trade journals and magazines
✔        Phone books and yellow pages
✔        Cardboard boxes and packaging
✔        Beverage cartons
✔        Envelopes (inc.window envelopes)
✔        Letters and unwanted mail                
✔        Scrap and shredded paper

 No thanks

X         Plastic bags
X         Plastic bottles
X         Polystyrene
X         Crisp packets
X         Padded envelopes
X         Tissues
X         Metallic wrapping paper
X         Food contaminated paper / card
X         Painted paper / card
X         Land fill waste

Yes please

✔        Glass bottles and jars 

No thanks

X        Plastic bags
X        Pyrex
X        Mirror or window glass
X        Bottle tops and lids

Cans and Plastic Bottles 

Yes please

✔        Drinks cans and food tins 
✔        Foil food trays
✔        Clean tin foil
✔        Aerosols
✔        Metal bottle tops and jar lids
✔        Plastic bottles and containers (types PET 1, HDPE 2 and PP 5)

 The plastic type code can be found embossed on or near the base of the plastic bottle 

No thanks

X        Plastic bags
X        Oil and paint tins