Finished with your cardboard boxes?
Keep them clean, dry, flattened and ready for recycling.
Small actions Big impact.
It’s the small everyday habits that make a big difference.
Recycling in Northumberland
Find your small action
A few small habits
at home.
A quick rinse of an empty bottle, flattening your cardboard or making sure your aerosol cans are empty are all simple actions that can easily become part of your everyday routine.
Choose an item. Find your small action.
A quick rinse goes a long way
Give your empty plastic bottles a quick rinse and recycle.
Clean, dry and loose
Rinsing out tins and cans helps ensure more can be recycled properly.
Emptying aerosols
Empty it and then recycle it.
Some everyday items might look like they belong in your recycling bin, but they can cause problems when they are mixed with other recyclable materials.
Keeping these items out of your recycling bin helps protect the materials that can be recycled and means more of your recycling has the best chance of being given a new life.
Which everyday items can cause problems?
Things like food waste, greasy cardboard, plastic bags, nappies and other non-recyclable items can contaminate good-quality recycling, making it harder to sort and process. If you are not sure, take a quick look at the recycling checker before you pop it in the bin.
Not sure
where it goes?
Before you pop something in your recycling bin, take a quick check.
Our recycling checker makes it easy to find out what can be recycled at home and where to put the things that cannot.
