Recycling rules for Teignbridge
Based on Teignbridge published guidance · Last verified October 2026
Under Simpler Recycling, councils across England are standardising collections. Here's what currently goes in each bin in Teignbridge.
Search what goes in your bins →Quick answers for Teignbridge
Polystyrene: Not accepted in Teignbridge's recycling bin
Cardboard: Not accepted in Teignbridge's garden waste bin
Glass bottles and jars: Goes in your recycling bin
Food waste: Teignbridge has a separate food waste collection
Takes leftover food and plate scrapings, bread, cakes and pastries, dairy products, eggs and eggshells and more.
Shredded paper: Goes in your recycling bin
Aerosols: Goes in your recycling bin
Black box.
Your bins in Teignbridge, by colour
Container colours as published by Teignbridge. Some homes get a different container. See the notes.
Blue sack
Paper
Black bin
Waste that cannot be recycled
What goes in each bin
Recycling
Accepted
What you can recycle in your black box:
- Bottles including lids (eg. drinks, detergent and shampoo bottles)
- Pots (eg. yoghurt pots)
- Tubs (eg. ice cream tubs and margarine tubs)
- Trays (eg. ready meal trays, fruit trays and meat trays)
- Plastic tubes · Black box
- Food cans · Black box
- Drinks cans · Black box
- Metal lids from jars and cans · Black box
- Biscuit and sweet tins · Black box
- Empty deodorant aerosols · Black box
- Empty household aerosols · Black box
- Foil containers · Black box
- Foil lids · Black box
- Confectionary foil · Black box
- Kitchen foil · Black box
- Drinks cartons · Black box
- Food cartons · Black box
What you can recycle in your green box:
- Thick and thin card · Green box
- Cardboard packaging · Green box
- Cereal boxes · Green box
- Egg boxes · Green box
- Ready meal sleeves · Green box
- Brown paper wrapping or brown envelopes · Green box
- Toilet roll tubes · Green box
- Greetings cards · Green box; without foil or glitter
- Wrapping paper · Green box; not foil
- Glass bottles (with or without lids attached)
- Glass jars (with or without lids attached)
- All coloured glass · Green box
- Small household batteries
- Printer cartridges
- Mobile phones and chargers
What you can recycle in your paper recycling sack:
- White paper
- Newspapers and magazines
- Directories and catalogues
- Junk mail
- Shredded paper
- White window envelopes
- Yellow pages
Not accepted
Please do not put these items in your black box:
- Plastic film
- Plastic wrapping
- Plastic bags
- Plastic toys
- Plastic plant pots
- Other metals
- Full aerosolsInstead: Wait until empty
- Paint tins
- Black plastic
- Crisp packets
- Drink, baby food and pet food pouches
- 'Foil' wrapping paper
- Camping gas bottles
Green recycling box, what you can't put in:
- Paper cups
- Mixed card and metal containers
- Light bulbs
- Polystyrene
- Broken glass, flat glass or pyrexInstead: Wrap and put in your black bin
Please do not put these items in your paper recycling sack:
- Brown or coloured paper
Tips (3)
Preparing your recycling for collection:
- • rinse your plastic packaging and tins to remove food residue
- • squash and stack your packaging to fit more in your box
- • place them on the top of your box so that they can be seen
Food Waste
Accepted
What you can put in your food waste container:
- Leftover food and plate scrapings
- Bread, cakes and pastries
- Dairy products, eggs and eggshells
- Fruit and vegetables, including peelings
- Out-of-date or mouldy food
- Pet food
- Raw and cooked meat or fish, including bones
- Tea bags and coffee grounds
Garden Waste
Accepted
What you can put in your garden waste bin:
- Bark
- Grass cuttings
- Cut flowers
- Weeds · Excluding noxious weeds
- Leaves
- Hedge clippings
- House plants · Please remove soil
- Twigs and small branches · Up to 10cm thick
- Shrub prunings
- Real Christmas trees · Contained in bin
- Windfall fruit · Spread over a few collections due to weight
Not accepted
Please do not put these items in your garden waste bin:
- Food waste
- Animal waste and pet litter
- Soil, compost or turf
- Bricks, stones or rubble
- Treated wood
- Plant pots
- Fake grass
- Wire netting/fencing
- Garden furniture
- Garden toys
- Crockery
- Ash
- Paper
- Cardboard
- Large items of garden waste
- Packaging, polystyrene or plastic
- Disposable nappies
- Pet bedding
- Compostable packaging
- Sawdust
When are bins collected in Teignbridge?
This page covers what goes in each bin. Collection days are set by the council and vary by street. See how to find your bin collection day, or browse streets by postcode to see schedules your neighbours have added.
Check with the council over bank holidays. See the council’s page →
In Teignbridge’s own words: “Waste that cannot be recycled is collected from you black wheeled bin every two weeks.”
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Frequently asked questions
What bin does polystyrene go in Teignbridge?
In Teignbridge, polystyrene can't go in your recycling bin.
What bin does cardboard go in Teignbridge?
In Teignbridge, cardboard can't go in your garden waste bin.
What bin do glass bottles and jars go in Teignbridge?
In Teignbridge, glass bottles (with or without lids attached) goes in your recycling bin.
What bin does food waste go in Teignbridge?
In Teignbridge, food waste goes in your food waste bin. It takes leftover food and plate scrapings, bread, cakes and pastries, dairy products, eggs and eggshells and more.
What goes in the recycling bin in Teignbridge?
Teignbridge's recycling bin accepts bottles including lids (eg. drinks, detergent and shampoo bottles), pots (eg. yoghurt pots), tubs (eg. ice cream tubs and margarine tubs), trays (eg. ready meal trays, fruit trays and meat trays), plastic tubes, food cans, and more. Black box.
What goes in the food waste bin in Teignbridge?
Teignbridge's food waste bin accepts leftover food and plate scrapings, bread, cakes and pastries, dairy products, eggs and eggshells, fruit and vegetables, including peelings, out-of-date or mouldy food, pet food, and more.
What goes in the garden waste bin in Teignbridge?
Teignbridge's garden waste bin accepts bark, grass cuttings, cut flowers, weeds, leaves, hedge clippings, and more. Excluding noxious weeds.
What can't be recycled in Teignbridge?
Items not accepted in Teignbridge: plastic film, plastic wrapping, plastic bags, plastic toys.
Helpful guides
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