What can I recycle?

Check the list below to see what can be recycled where. For advice on what should go in your bin visit how can I best use my rubbish bin?

Recyclable Material	Where can I recycle it?
Aerosols	Wastesavers green box
Batteries – household inc. hearing aid batteries	1. Freepost envelopes in Sainsburys 2. Civic Amenity site
Birthday and Christmas cards	Woodland Trust (opens new website) recycling banks in WHSmith and Tesco
Cans	1. Wastesavers green box 2. Bring banks 3. Civic Amenity site
Car batteries	Civic Amenity site
Cardboard – boxes, egg cartons, ready meal card sleeves, toilet and kitchen rolls.	1. Civic Amenity site 2. Home compost bin - shred first! 3. Orange top bin
Clothes, bags, belts and pairs of shoes or trainers	1. Wastesavers blue box 2. Bring banks 3. Civic Amenity site 4. Charity shops
Egg shells – crush first for home composting	Home compost bin
Fluorescent tubes	Civic Amenity site
Foil cartons and washed tin foil	1. Wastesavers green box 2. Civic Amenity site
Fridges	Civic Amenity site
Fruit – peel and small pieces are best for home composting	Home compost bin
Furniture – anything reusable like lamps, cabinets, sofas	Community Furniture Project
Garden trimmings – weeds, grass, leaves, flowers and shrub cuttings	1. Orange top bin 2. Civic Amenity site 3. Home compost bin
Glass bottles and jars	1. Wastesavers green box 2. Civic Amenity site 3. Bring banks
Hardcore – inc rubble and ceramics	Civic Amenity site
Inkjet cartridges	Civic Amenity site
IT equipment or PC’s	Try 1. Vision Computer Centre in Cwmbran on 01633 864444 2. Computers in the Community in Cardiff on 02920 463963 or email georgina.ashmore@citcwales.org.uk 3. Waste Technique Ltd in Tonyrefail on 01433 672933
Junk mail	Wastesavers blue box
Mobile phones – with or without batteries	1. Wastesavers blue box 2. Civic Amenity site
Newspapers and magazines	1. Wastesavers blue box 2. Civic Amenity site 3. Bring banks
Oil – car oil only	Civic Amenity site
Paper – including shredded paper	1. Wastesavers blue box 2. Civic Amenity site 3. Bring banks
Phone directories	1. Wastesavers blue box 2. Yellow Woods Challenge (opnes new website)
Plastic carrier bags	Tescos, Asda and Sainsburys banks
Plastic bottles inc shampoo, fabric conditioner, pop and milk bottles	1. Wastesavers green box 2. Civic Amenity site
Rigid plastics such as plastic toys, plastic crates and plastic furniture. BUT NOT UPVC windows or doors.	Civic Amenity site
Real nappies	Visit our real nappies page for more info.
Scrap metal – smaller pieces	Civic Amenity site
Sky Digiboxes – made by Pace only	Pace Micro Technology plc, Victoria Road, Saltaire, West Yorkshire. BD18 3LF
Spectacles	Specsavers
Tea bags	Home compost bin
Tetrapaks	These can be posted off for recycling. Visit http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/ for more info
Tin cans	1. Wastesavers green box 2. Civic Amenity site 3. Bring banks
Toner cartridges	Wastesavers blue box
TVs and monitors	Civic Amenity site
Vegetables – trimmings and offcuts are best for home composting	Home compost bin

Wastesavers no longer elastic on plastic

Wastesavers can not collect the types of plastic that have not been requested from residents. For full reasons why Wastesavers want all recyclers to put out plastic bottles only, please see the press release.

If you can’t see the usable item you want to recycle on this list, you could try advertising it on the Freecycle website, or on Free2Collect, for someone to collect it from you for free and re-use it themselves.

Please email recycle for newport if you are unsure whether something can be recycled or not.

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