What can you put in your recycling boxes?
City of York Council have asked us to publicise this reminder of what you can put in your recycling boxes.
City of York Council Recycle Poster (PDF file)
Together in a box
- Glass jars and bottles (any colour glass)
- Food tins and cans (aluminium and steel)
- Plastic bottles with lids or spray nozzles on
- Plastic yoghurt pots, margarine tubs and light coloured food trays
- Empty aerosol cans, foam sprays and detergent dispensers
- Clean foil
No dark plastic food trays, hard plastic e.g childrens toys, plastic film or bags, bubble wrap, broken glass, or pyrex
Together in another box
- Cardboard packaging
- Clean card such as cereal boxes, ready meal sleeves,
- egg boxes, inner tubes of toilet rolls
- Envelopes (with plastic window removed)
- Newspapers, catalogues, magazines, junk mail
- Wrapping paper and greeting cards (no foil or glitter)
- Clean paper bags, office paper and shredded paper
Cardboard with food on or wet cardboard - large boxes (must be broken up to fit in the recycling box)
What kind of foil can be recycled?
- clean aluminium foil
- clean aluminium trays
- clean foil dishes
- screw top lids from wine bottles
Scrunch the pack or foil into a ball, if it stays scrunched it’s aluminium and can be recycled! If it springs back open then it cannot be recycled.
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Image still from City of York Council video, The Recycling Journey: