If you have boxes, it doesn't matter which colour box you use for which items, as long as the items are sorted correctly. So you can put your paper and cardboard in either the green or the black box, as long as you put the plastics, glass and cans in your other box.
If you have wheeled bins for recycling:
Grey wheelie bin (red lid) – for mixed recyclables, plastics, cans, glass etc
Grey wheelie bin (yellow lid) – for paper and cardboard
Any extra paper and cardboard can be placed in an untied carrier bag alongside your recycling bins/boxes. Any extra foil, cans and plastic bottles (but not glass) can be placed in a separate carrier bag. Glass must always be placed in the recycling bins/boxes.
Not in your recycling bins/boxes. Tetra Paks (juice cartons) can be taken to the recycling sites at Auction Mart car park (Lancaster), Salt Ayre Household Waste Recycling Centre (Lancaster), Morecambe town hall, The Greyhound (Halton) and Keer Bridge HWRC (Carnforth).
All glass bottles, including food and sauce jars, medicine bottles, perfume and aftershave, moisturiser containers and glass make-up containers. Also don’t forget about other bottles in your kitchen such as spice jars, oil bottles and baby food jars which can also be recycled.
Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays. Anything with the number 1, 2 or 5 inside the recycling triangle on the plastic article can be put in your bins/boxes.
Yes, broken glass can be placed in the recycling bins/boxes as the crew do not need to separate the items by hand. Only broken glass bottles and jars please - drinking glasses, pyrex, mirrors and windows are not recyclable in your recycling bins/boxes.
Yes, clean foil should be placed in the same bins/boxes as tin cans, glass and plastics. If you are unsure as to whether it is foil or not do the scruch test. If the items stays scruched it is foil, if it springs back it is not foil.