Recycling rules for Bracknell Forest

What goes in your blue bin, yes:

• ✓Aerosol canisters · Empty
• ✓Books
• ✓Cans and tins · Rinsed; labels are OK
• ✓Card · Cereal boxes, egg boxes, roll tubes, flattened boxes
• ✓Greetings and Christmas cards · Without glitter
• ✓Cartons (Tetrapak) · Juice, milk and soup cartons
• ✓Catalogues, brochures and directories
• ✓Foil and foil trays · Rinsed
• ✓Junk mail, letters and envelopes · Including window envelopes
• ✓Newspapers and magazines
• ✓Printer paper · White and coloured
• ✓Plastic bottles · Rinsed
• ✓Plastic punnets and trays · Fruit punnets, meat trays
• ✓Plastic cosmetic pots or tubs
• ✓Plastic pots · Yoghurt, cream or soup pots
• ✓Plastic tubs · Ice cream and margarine tubs
• ✓Toothpaste tubes
• ✓Wrapping paper · Not foil based

What goes in your blue bin, no:

• ✗Batteries
• ✗Coffee pods
• ✗Cellophane, plastic film
• ✗Crisp bags
• ✗Electrical and electronic equipment
• ✗Foil-based wrapping paper
• ✗Food pouches
• ✗Food waste
• ✗Glass
• ✗Metal cutlery, pots and pans
• ✗Metal jar lids
• ✗Nappies
• ✗Paint tins
• ✗Plastic bags including bin bags
• ✗Plastic toys and rigid plastics
• ✗Polystyrene
• ✗Textiles: clothes, bedding, duvets
• ✗Tissues

What goes in your brown bin, yes:

• ✓Grass cuttings
• ✓Hedge trimmings
• ✓Tree trimmings
• ✓Leaves
• ✓Small branches
• ✓Small plants
• ✓Weeds
• ✓Flowers
• ✓Christmas trees · Chopped up

What goes in your brown bin, no:

• ✗Animal waste
• ✗Bricks and rubble
• ✗Flower pots or plant trays
• ✗Glass or metal
• ✗Soil, turf or stones
• ✗Tree stumps

• ✗Food wasteInstead: Food waste caddy