Recycling rules for Cherwell

What to put in your blue recycling bin:

• ✓Aerosols
• ✓Biscuit/sweet tin
• ✓Bottle tops (plastic and metal)
• ✓Brochures and Catalogues
• ✓Cans, tins
• ✓Cardboard
• ✓Cartons
• ✓Envelopes (with windows)
• ✓Foil and foil trays (clean) · Clean
• ✓Greeting cards (non-glittery) · Non-glittery
• ✓Inner tubes from toilet and kitchen paper
• ✓Junk mail
• ✓Leaflets
• ✓Magazines
• ✓Metal cans and tins
• ✓Newspapers
• ✓Paper including shredded paper
• ✓Plastic bottles, tubs, trays, pots
• ✓Soft plastic food pots and trays
• ✓Toothpaste tubes (empty) · Empty

• ✓Glass bottles and jars of any colour

What not to put in your blue recycling bin:

• ✗Bedding
• ✗Black/Carrier bags
• ✗Blister packs
• ✗Broken glassInstead: Wrap securely and place in general waste bin
• ✗Bubble wrap
• ✗Ceramics including cups, plates, flower pots
• ✗Chinaware
• ✗Cling film
• ✗Clothes, shoes or textiles
• ✗Crisp packets
• ✗Drinking glasses, tumblers or wine glasses
• ✗Glass cookware
• ✗Hard plastics e.g. storage boxes, flower pots
• ✗Kitchen and tissue paper
• ✗Lightbulbs and strip lights
• ✗Nappies
• ✗Needles
• ✗Pet food pouches
• ✗Polystyrene
• ✗Pyrex
• ✗Sweet/chocolate wrappers
• ✗Textiles
• ✗Window panes or mirrors

What to put in your brown garden waste bin:

• ✓Grass cuttings
• ✓Pet straw (non meat eating domestic animals)
• ✓Untreated sawdust
• ✓Cut flowers
• ✓Branches
• ✓Leaves
• ✓Hedge trimmings
• ✓Weeds

What not to put in your brown garden and food waste bin:

• ✗Soil
• ✗Stones
• ✗Bricks
• ✗Cardboard
• ✗Paper
• ✗Textiles
• ✗Flower pots
• ✗Plastic bags
• ✗Cat or dog waste
• ✗Fats and oils
• ✗Wood