Recycling rules for King's Lynn and West Norfolk

You can put the following into your green recycling bin:

• ✓Newspapers, magazines and telephone directories
• ✓Paper and clean cardboard
• ✓Plastic bottles · Leave the lids on
• ✓Steel and aluminium food and drinks cans
• ✓Empty aerosols
• ✓Glass bottles and jars · Leave the tops on
• ✓Plastic food pots, tubs and trays
• ✓Waxed cartons and Tetra Paks
• ✓Foil and foil trays
• ✓Shredded paper
• ✓Envelopes (including window type), greetings cards and junk mail
• ✓Wrapping paper

What you can't put in your green bin:

• ✗Plastic/carrier bags
• ✗Polystyrene
• ✗Drinking glasses, Pyrex ware, broken window panes
• ✗Textiles
• ✗Food waste (please put this in your food bin)Instead: Put in your food bin
• ✗Garden waste (this can be collected via the brown bin scheme)Instead: Brown bin scheme
• ✗Batteries
• ✗Books

The food waste bin is for all food products. The following are examples you may put in:

• ✓Cooked food
• ✓Vegetable peelings
• ✓Leftover pet food
• ✓Tea bags and coffee grounds
• ✓Egg shells
• ✓Bones and shellfish
• ✓Fruit cores and peel
• ✓Dairy products

Please do not put the following items in the food bin:

• ✗Any packaging (unless you're using it to line your caddy; see below*)
• ✗Non food products
• ✗Runny oils or fats (these can be taken to your nearest household recycling centre or disposed of in your black bin)Instead: Recycling centre or black bin

• ✗Pet waste (this should be wrapped and disposed of in your black bin)

Garden waste bin cost, what we will collect:

• ✓Grass and hedge clippings
• ✓Twigs and small branches
• ✓Cut flowers
• ✓Windfall fruit
• ✓Leaves
• ✓Prunings from shrubs

Garden waste bin cost, what we won't collect:

• ✗Soil or garden waste containing soil
• ✗Stones or gravel
• ✗Seed trays or flower pots
• ✗Kitchen or food waste
• ✗Pet litter
• ✗Plastic compost bags, black bags and plant tags