What goes in each bin

Which bin: Grey bin

Check to see if you can recycle your coffee cup from the shop you bought it from as many retailers now offer take back schemes. If this isn't an option, you can:

Recycle the cardboard sleeve in your red-lidded recycling bin.

Recycle the plastic lid in your blue-lidded recycling bin.

Which bin: Grey bin

Crisp packets are often lined with metallised plastic (looks like foil), which is not easily separated from the plastic, making them very difficult to recycle.

Please either put these into your Non-Recyclable Waste, or take them to a supermarket soft plastic recycling collection.

Which bin: Grey bin

These can be recycled at your nearest recycling centre.

Which bin: Red-lidded bin

Please removed plastic windows from envelopes and put these into your Mixed Recycling.

Which bin: Red-lidded bin

Cardboard only folders can be recycled in your Paper and Card.

If a folder has any type of metal in it then it can be recycled in the metal container at any Essex Recycling Centre (including ring binders).

Hard plastic only folders can be placed in the rigid plastic container at any Essex Recycling Centre.

Which bin: Red-lidded bin

You can recycle shredded paper in your Paper and Card, ideally in a paper or card container, such as an envelope or cardboard cereal box.

Which bin: Blue-lidded bin

Bubble wrap can be used again and again to protect items in the post or when transporting them.

Which bin: Blue-lidded bin

You can recycle clean aluminium foil in your Mixed Recycling. Scrunch smaller pieces together into a ball to make them easier to recycle.

Which bin: Blue-lidded bin

Drink and food cartons (eg fruit juice cartons, milk cartons, crisps tubes, Tetra Pak) can be recycled in your Mixed Recycling. The cartons should be squashed first before placing the lid back onto the carton.