Your "What Goes Where" Guide to Waste
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A
Aerosols
Agricultural chemicals, containers and drums
Aluminium (metal)
Aluminium drink cans
Aluminium foil, trays and tubes (eg tomato paste)
Ashes (cool)
Hot ashes
B
Baby formula tins
Batteries (car)
Batteries (household)
Batteries (lithium)
Bedding (good condition)
Bedding (poor condition, wet, stained, torn)
Beer bottles, RTDs etc
Bicycles / bike parts (good condition)
Bicycles / bike parts (poor condition, rusted)
Bin liners
Biscuit / chocolate tins (metal ) and their lids
Board games (broken, parts missing)
Board games (good condition, all parts included)
Books
Bottle (glass)
Bottle (plastics 1, 2 & 5 only)
Bottle (plastics 3, 4, 6 & 7)
Bottle tops
Box (cardboard)
Brass
Bread bags and bread tags
Bubblewrap
C
Cans / tins
Car parts
Car stereo
Cardboard
Cardboard tubes
Carpet
Cars (unwanted, for scrap)
Cat litter
CDs (broken, poor condition)
CDs (good condition)
Cell phones
Child car seat
Clingfilm and other soft plastics
Clothing (good condition)
Clothing (poor condition, wet, stained, torn)
Coins
Computers, laptops, computer cables and computer mouse
Concrete
Cooking oil (domestic quantities only)
Copier toner
Copper / Brass Pipes and Fittings
Corks
Corrugated iron
Crockery and cutlery (good condition)
Crockery and cutlery (poor condition, broken)
D
Desktop computer
Diesel
Digital camera
Dirt / cleanfill / soil
Dishwasher
Disposable coffee cups and disposable plates
Disposable nappies
Disposable wipes
Docking station for laptop
Drinking glasses (good condition)
Dryer
DVD / VCR / CD player
E
Egg carton
E-waste
F
Fabric (good condition)
Fabric (poor condition, wet, stained, torn)
Fan
Fax machine
Fireworks
Fish and chip paper, or butcher paper that has wrapped takeaways or food
Flax
Fluorescent tubes
Fly spray can
Food scraps
Fridge / freezer
Furniture (good condition)
Furniture (poor condition, broken)
G
Gaming consoles
Garden chemicals
Garden waste
Gas cylinders
Glass (broken)
Glass containers for cosmetics (perfume, aftershave, face creams, nail varnish )
Glass food jars
Glasses / eyewear (broken)
Glasses / eyewear (good condition)
Grass clippings / green waste
H
Hair / fur
Heater (electric)
Heater (oil)
Household chemicals
I
Iron (electric applinace)
Iron (metal)
J
Joinery
Junk mail
K
Kettle
Keyboards
L
Laminated pouches (cat food, baby food)
Landline phone
Laptop
Leaves
Lids (all sizes and types) and pull-tabs from cans
Light-bulb (broken, halogen, incandescent, LED)
Light-bulb (energy saver, compact flluorescent)
Liquid
M
Broken mirror
Magazines
Makeup
Margarine tubs
Mattress (good condition)
Mattress (poor condition, wet, stained, torn)
Meadow Fresh yoghurt pots
Medical waste (needles and medicines)
Medicine
Microwave
Mirrors
Mobile phones
Modem
Monitors
Motor oil
Motor oil filter
Musical instruments (good condition)
Musical instruments (poor condition / broken)
N
Nappies / wet wipes / sanitary products
Needles / syringes
Network switch
Newspaper
O
Oven
P
Paint
Paper
Paper towels, tissues, cotton wool
Pesticides
Petrol
Phone books
Phone charger
Photocopier
Pizza boxes - clean (food scraps removed, not dirty or wet)
Pizza boxes - dirty
Plastic bags, bread bags, carrier bags
Plastic containers (numbers 1, 2 & 5)
Plastic containers (numbers 3, 4, 6 & 7)
Plastic plant pots and seedling punnets
Plastic wrap / soft plastic
Polystyrene eg packaging inserts
Pool chemicals
Pots and pans (good condition)
Pots and pans (poor condition, broken)
Printer
Printer cartridges
PVC wire
Pyrex glass (good condition)
Pyrex glass (poor condition, broken)
R
Router
Rubbish (household)
S
Sanitary products
Scanner
Scrap metal
Server
Set-top / Satellite TV box
Shampoo bottles
Shoes (good condition)
Shoes (poor condition, broken)
Shredded paper
Skins (animal)
Solvents
Soy / almond milk containers (tetrapak style cartons)
Sports equipment (good condition)
Sports equipment (poor condition, broken)
Spray cans (empty)
Stainless steel
Stereo
T
Takeaway coffee cup
Takeaway food containers (clean plastic)
Takeaway food containers (polystyrene)
Television (CRT)
Television (Plasma / LCD)
Tetrapak cartons
Till receipts
Timber (treated)
Timber (untreated)
Tin (metal)
Tin foil
Toaster
Toilet paper
Toner cartridges
Tools (good condition)
Tools (poor condition, broken)
Toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes
Topsoil
Towel
Toys (good condition)
Toys (poor condition, broken)
Tree stumps
Triggers and pumps (from plastic bottles)
Tyres (greater than 20" diameter)
Tyres (up to 20 inch diameter)
U
Underlay
Un-numbered plastic containers
UPS
V
Vacuum cleaner
Videos and DVDs (good condition)
Videos and DVDs (poor condition, broken)
W
Wallpaper and decoration paper
Washing machine
Waxed cardboard cartons eg Tetrapak
Whiteware
Window (complete with frame)
Window glass (broken)
Wine bottles
Wood pallets
Wool
Wrapping paper (foil or glitter decorated)
Wrapping paper (standard)
Y
Yoghurt pots