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Paper and packing recycling - grey wheelie bin
Environment and planning
Recycling, rubbish and waste
Paper and packing recycling - grey wheelie bin
Welcome To Wirral
Recycling - collections
Your grey wheelie bin is for all your paper and packaging recycling. All the items below can be recycled into amazing things. Did you know that plastics bottles can be recycled into fleece jackets!
Please place your bin out before 7am on your collection day below and remove as soon as possible on the same day after emptying.
For detailed information on this service please click here
Yes please to:
- All types of plastic bottles including drinks bottles, washing up liquid bottles and shampoo bottles
- Glass bottles of all colours, or glass jars
- Magazines, junk mail, newspapers, office paper, windowless envelopes, paper bags, wrapping paper (not foil)
- Cardboard boxes, cardboard food packaging (not soiled), egg cartons, loo/kitchen rolls or greeting cards
- Aluminium food or drink cans, steel lids from jars and bottles
- Telephone directories including yellow pages
- Catalogues
No thanks to:
- Plastic bags
- Foil
- Textiles
- Any food or liquids
- Tetra packs (milk and juice cartons)
- Plastic film / cling film
- Broken drinking glasses / sheet glass
- Plastic bottle tops
- Polystyrene
Do not wrap any recycling in plastic bags. There is no need to crush items just rinse and add loose to your bin