Waste streams and what to do with them
| Public areas | For your vendors | |
| Reuse | Cloth bags | Cardboard, signage, timber |
| Recycle | Soft drink bottles, glass bottles and jars, aluminium cans, brochures, leaflets and newspapers, flexible squeeze bottles, single use plastic cups (must be clean/empty and made of 1, 2 or 5 plastic), milk bottles | Glass bottles and containers, plastic containers made of 1, 2 or 5 plastic, e.g. milk, cream and detergent bottles, food and cleaning material bottles, flexible squeeze bottles, ice cream containers, butter/margarine, yoghurt containers, some clear plastic cups, tins. Soft plastic (must be collected separately to any other recyclables and taken to an appropriate drop off location) |
| Compost | Certified compostable packaging, compostable cold drink cups, coffee cups plates, cutlery | Certified compostable packaging e.g. compostable cups, plates, wooden cutlery, etc food preparation waste, leftover food, compostable packaging. Used cooking oil should be collected separately (see our Waste and Recycling Services page for more info) |
| Avoid/ dispose | Regular disposable coffee cups, cigarette packets, plastic bags, individual sauce containers, crisp packets/candy bar wrappers, cigarette butts, disposable nappies, broken merchandise | Plastic cutlery and plates, polystyrene packaging broken merchandise |
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