Your coloured bins are used as follows:
We include a cut-out-and-keep guide to what goes in which bin in most editions of Cambridge Matters, the magazine we deliver to all residents every three months.
Search our recycling and rubbish A to Z to find out about how to recycle, reuse or dispose of specific items.
Batteries:
To recycle small household batteries, for example AA, AAA, 9V, button – please put them inside a small tied plastic bag and place this loosely on top of the lid of your blue, green or black bin.
Put these in your blue bin:
Do not put these in your blue bin:
Put these in your black bin:
Do not put these in your black bin:
Put these in your green bin:
Do not put these in your green bin:
We cannot collect extra garden waste.
You can home compost, visit a Household Recycling Centre or apply for an additional green bin if you have extra garden waste.
You can use a kitchen caddy with a paper liner for your kitchen food waste, and empty it into your green bin when full.