What goes in your yellow bin?

Your yellow bin (recycling bin) is for common household packaging items typically bought at a supermarket and found in your kitchen, bathroom or laundry.  

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Yes, these items can go in your yellow bin

Only accepted paper, cardboard, hard plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, aluminium and steel cans can go in your recycling bin. These items must be loose in your recycling bin.  

  • Hard plastic bottles and containers (must have recycling code 1 to 6, such as ice cream containers and soft drink bottles)
  • Paper and cardboard
  • Paper straws unused
  • Glass bottles and jars
  • Steel and aluminium cans 

No, these items cannot go in your yellow bin

  • Batteries, mobile phones
  • Electronic items (anything with a plug, battery or power cord)
  • Plastic bags, plastic film or soft plastics
  • Shopping receipts
  • Medicine blister packets
  • Ceramic mugs, plates, cutlery
  • Clothing/textiles/bedding
  • Footwear
  • Toys
  • Drinking glass, window glass, bakeware, pyrex
  • Toothpaste, tubes, toothbrushes
  • Coat hangers, bread tags
  • Nappies, wet wipes
  • Wooden and timber items
  • Waxed cardboard
  • Expanded polystyrene 

What happens to your recycling? 

Items put into your yellow bin go to a local recovery facility where the contents of the bins are mechanically sorted into their different material types: 

  • Glass
  • Steel
  • Aluminium
  • Paper and cardboard
  • Plastics 1 to 6

These materials then go to various recyclers who will then transform the material into new items. 

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