Common household items that can be recycled easily:

• Toilet and kitchen roll tubes
• All empty detergent, soap, condiment bottles, cosmetic bottles and containers (both plastic and glass)
• Aluminium cans (from canned drinks and canned food)
• Flyers, letters, envelopes
• All plastic packaging such as egg trays, fruit boxes
• Tetra Pak beverage cartons, milk and juice cartons‍

Plastic: PET bottles, HDPE bottles, hard plastic, empty detergent, soap, condiment bottles, cosmetic bottles and containers, egg trays
Paper and cardboard: including TetraPak, Flyers, letters, envelopes, beverage cartons, milk and juice cartons, Toilet and kitchen roll tubes
Metal and aluminium: including can, canned drinks and canned food
Glass: containers, bottles

Must be dry, not contaminated with food and liquid.‍

Items that can be recycled but shouldn’t be placed in the blue recycling bins:

• Textiles (clothes, shoes and bed sheets)
• E-waste (any kind of electronic equipment like batteries, mobiles phones, microwaves). Please see relevant solutions in the e-waste category.‍

There are some things that seem to fall under the branch of recyclable materials, yet they CANNOT be recycled.

Some examples are:

• Used paper disposables that are contaminated with food waste
• Greazy Pizza Box
• Styrofoam
• Used tissue paper
• Receipts that have a layer of wax over them (paper receipts can still be recycled)
• Soft plastics
• Disposable plastic plates and straws
• Oxo- and bio-degradable bags
• Light bulbs and window glass
• Ceramic and porcelain items‍

Make sure to rinse all containers previously filled with any sort of content

For example, items such as shampoo/detergent bottles, canned/bottled drinks, cosmetic jars, jam jars need to be clean before they can be recycled. This is to prevent they contaminate other recyclables, especially paper. Soiled paper cannot be recycled, and all recyclables that have been contaminated will be dumped and incinerated with general waste. So give your containers a simple rinse before you put them into the blue bin.

Make sure your paper & cardboards items are not contaminated with food or liquids. Remove the contaminated part where relevant.‍

If paper or cardboards are wet, greasy or contain food, they are not recyclable and can also contaminate the rest of the items in the recycling bin.