Household recycling

You can recycle most paper and cardboard items in the grey bin including:

• Newspapers
• Greeting cards
• Catalogues
• Envelopes
• Cardboard boxes, cardboard tubes and other cardboard containers

Changes to Grey bin

Drinks and food cartons are now recycled in the green bin.

You can recycle plastic and cans in the green bin including:

Metals

• Food cans
• Drink cans
• Foil trays
• Metal lids

Plastics

• Bottles
• Food and drink pots
• Tubs and trays of all colours
• Drinks and food cartons

Green bin changes – extra plastics that can be recycled

All plastic bags, wrappers, film and packaging including:

• Plastic pouches
• Fruit and veg nets
• Plastic sauce sachets
• The film from ready meal trays and fruit tubs – ripped off and separated
• Carrier bags
• Bread bags
• Snack bags – crisps and peanuts etc.
• Biscuit, chocolate and sweets bags, wrappers, tubs
• Cling film
• Pizza wrapping film
• Flower bouquet wrappers
• Pet food wrappers
• Plastic plant pots
• Plastic coat hangers

You can recycle food and garden waste in the brown bin including:

Garden waste

• Grass cuttings
• flowers and plants
• twigs and small branches

Food waste

• Fruit and vegetables
• Poultry
• Meat
• Fish
• Plate scraping
• Tea bags and coffee grounds

Your blue bin is for landfill (household waste)

All the waste in the blue landfill bin is sent to local landfill sites where it is buried under the ground. To minimise waste going to landfill, only waste that cannot be recycled should be put in your blue landfill bin.

In multi-occupancy properties waste and recycling bins are provided whenever possible.  There can be difficulties due to space restrictions and the number of bins needed for the block.

Collection frequencies for landfill waste will vary at each site and depend on the number of bins provided and the number of properties in the block.  If you don’t know your waste arrangements, please speak to your landlord, factor or call our Recycling Helpline on 03451 55 00 22.

If recycling bins are not provided you can still recycle. Use Recycling Points to recycle your plastics, cans, paper, cardboard, glass and textiles.

A property may be on a sack collection if:

• They do not have space to store a landfill bin on their property
• We cannot access their house due to the width of street, vehicle restrictions etc.

In these circumstances we may provide a sack collection to the resident. Sack collections are normally collected weekly. However, we are unable to provide a recycling service alongside this.

We deliver 50 sacks every six months equating to a use of two sacks per week.  We will only uplift Fife Council branded sacks from the collection point.

The waste and recycling service provided to rural properties will vary. This will depend on their ease of access, condition of access road and ability to store bins at road end.

We provide up to a 3 bin service to rural properties including:

• Landfill (household) waste collection – emptied fortnightly
• Plastics and cans collection – emptied monthly
• Paper and cardboard collection – emptied monthly

We do not provide a food and garden waste collection to rural properties as it is not cost effective to do so.

You can check your bin collection calendar online.