What can I recycle in the blue paper and card box?
These items can go in your blue paper and card box
- newspapers
- magazines and catalogues
- leaflets and brochures
- junk mail
- envelopes - including ones with windows
- shredded paper (please place at the bottom of your bin);
- white office paper
- telephone directories
- wrapping paper (except foil lined or metallic)
- soft backed books
- cereal boxes
- ready meal sleeves
- kitchen and toilet roll tubes
- cardboard boxes (please flatten and place large boxes nest to the blue box)
- corrugated cardboard
- greetings cards (with glitter, metal and other non-paper decorations removed if applicable)
- egg boxes
These items cannot go in your blue paper and card box and need to go in your pink sacks
- household plastic packaging (including plastic film)
- plastic bottles and lids
- drink cans and food tins
These items cannot go in your blue paper and card box or pink sacks and need to go in your black sacks
- kitchen roll
- tissues and wipes
- heavily food-stained paper and card