What to put in your green bin or brown sack
Yes please
Compostable waste:
- Garden waste
- grass cuttings
- hedge cuttings
- flowers
- weeds
- bark and untreated wood
- sawdust and woodshavings
- rabbit or guinea pig bedding
- Kitchen
waste
- vegetable and fruit peelings
- cooked and uncooked food waste - including meat, poultry, fish and dairy (preferably wrapped in newspaper)
- tea bags
- coffee filters
- stale bread
- Cardboard/other
- all cardboard food packaging and boxes - except carton
- phone books (these can now also go in your Black Box)
- brown envelopes - please remove any plastic windows
- shredded paper
- coloured paper, eg craft and sugar paper
- brown paper
- soiled newspaper, eg from vegetarian pet bedding
No thanks
- disposable nappies
- glass
- cans
- textiles
- soil
- stones
- painted or treated woods
- cat or dog waste
- oil - except small amounts soaked into cardboard
- non-compostable items
- liquid food and drink cartons, eg Tetra Pak
- plastic bags
- corn-starch bags
Please do not use any plastic bags in your green bin - even biodegradable ones.
Brown sacks
Residents who do not have a place to store a green bin on their premises are issued with brown sacks for their compostable waste. It is not possible to provide brown sacks to residents in addition to a green bin.
Each fortnight residents can put up
to six brown sacks out for collection on the same day as their blue box. Please clearly write your house number on each sack
so that the collection crew can provide you with replacement sacks.
Items allowed in brown sacks are the same as
those for green bins, although care needs to be taken with heavy or wet items, eg large quantities of windfall apples as these
can cause the bag to split when lifted
Sacks should be stored on your property before collection and should be
put out by 7am on the day of collection and not before 6pm the day before collection.
Only brown sacks supplied
by us will be collected.
Tips
You can help prevent your green bin from splitting by lining the bottom with paper so that wet waste such as grass cuttings do not stick to the bin.