Blue bin recycling around the home

Your Blue Bin Recycling Guide

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You can

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all of these plastic items from around your home

Plastic bottles and containers like milk bottles, drinks bottles, shampoo bottles, sauce bottles.

Plastic yoghurt pots, plastic butter or margarine cartons, plastic food trays.

Top tips: • Rinse your plastic bottles, food containers and trays in your old washing-up water. • Remember to remove pump and trigger sprays where it is easy to do so and place separately in your black bin.

You can

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all of these paper & card items from around your home

Paper like newspapers, magazines, junk mail, telephone books and catalogues.

Cardboard like cereal boxes, egg boxes, post cards, greeting cards, clean frozen food boxes.

Paper based like packaging for fruit juice, soup and chopped tomatoes.

Envelopes without padding.

Top tips: • If you scrunch paper and it does not spring back it CAN be recycled.

• Remove any glitter, plastic and batteries from greetings cards before recycling.

• Flatten boxes to save space in your recycling bin.

• Cardboard packing from your online orders can also be recycled.

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You can

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all of these metal & glass items from around your home

Aerosol cans.

Food & drink cans like soup cans, drinks cans, pet food cans and biscuit tins.

Please rinse them out.

Glass - like glass bottles and jars.

Top tips: • Ensure all aerosols are empty before recycling and put the lid in with your plastic collection.

• Empty, rinse and put metal lids back on bottles and jars before recycling.

• You can leave labels on your bottles and jars.

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Your recycling is really making a difference – thanks!

Your blue bin is for recycling.

All the material you place in your blue bin must be clean and dry.

Items should be loose, not in plastic bags.

Please remember, you must not use your blue bin to dispose of: Polystyrene or shredded paper Dirty waste Ceramics or pottery Food Remember to leave your bins at the kerbside by General waste 7.30am on collection day Nappies

Get in touch If you require recycling information for your household, recycling stickers for your bin or have any other recycling queries, please contact a member of the recycling team: T: 03000 132 132 E: recycling@midulstercouncil.org W: www.midulstercouncil.org/recycling