All houses in Cambridge should have:   

• A blue bin (or a recycling box) for recycling mixed cans, paper, glass, plastic packaging, cartons and cardboard
• A green bin (or brown paper sacks) for compostable garden and food waste
• A black bin (or white plastic sacks) for general rubbish

Your blue and green bin are emptied one week, and your black bin is emptied the following week.

• Check when your bin will be emptied
• Check what goes in which bin

You can download a poster [PDF, ] showing what can go in each bin, and we provide various recycling leaflets and posters in other languages.

It can help to set up a separate bin for your blue bin recycling in your kitchen, next to the general rubbish bin. You can download a label to put on your kitchen recycling bin [PDF, ].