Check what goes in your green box
Use your green recycling box for:
- cardboard boxes, packaging and sleeves
- junk mail
- paper and magazines
- phone directories including yellow pages
- shredded paper (put other paper on top or in a paper bag or cardboard box to stop it blowing away)
- envelopes
Do not put these items into your green box:
- clothes or textiles
- glass
- household rubbish
- plastic
- tissue paper
How your waste is recycled
Too much cardboard to fit in your box?
If you regularly have more cardboard than can fit in your green box, we recommend ordering up to two more boxes - use our online form at ask for a new bin.
If it is only occasional, we will collect a “reasonable” amount of excess cardboard if folded flat and placed next to the green box. We consider a reasonable amount to be about the equivalent of another green box.
