Blue Sack
Paper and cardboard are collected weekly and should be presented in a Council-issued blue sack. It will need to be presented by 7am on your collection day with a closed lid.
Blue sacks are chargeable (£3 per sack). If you need a new, additional or replacement blue sack, please order online.
Yes please:
- Newspaper and magazines
- Phone directories, including Yellow Pages
- Catalogues and paperback books
- Junk-mail, letters and cards
- Cardboard egg boxes
- Envelopes
- Cereal boxes and thin cardboard food packaging
- Shredded paper – must be in a sealed paper bag, envelope, thin cardboard box e.g. cereal packet (please do not put shredded paper loose, or in a plastic bag, as it won't be collected)
- Corrugated cardboard including mail-order packaging
- Sachet pet food boxes
- Washing powder boxes
- Clean pizza boxes (make sure all food is removed)
Please fold, tear or cut cardboard so that it fits into your blue sack.
Wet cardboard will be collected, but we'd be grateful if it could be kept as dry as possible. This allows us to process it easily and obtain the best market values for it.
You can have more than one blue sack if you need it.
Extra cardboard will be accepted if it’s cut down to the size of a blue sack, and bundled neatly, but large amounts of cardboard should be taken to a local Household Recycling Centre
No thanks:
- Photographs
- Polystyrene
- Bubble wrap
- Wallpaper
- Hardback books
- Shiny foil or glitter wrapping paper, cards or gift tags
- Corrugated cardboard boxes that have not been flattened and broken up
- Greasy cardboard/paper