Households with wheelie bin collections have a 240-litre bin with a green lid for recycling.
Please ensure your recycling items are clean, to avoid contamination, kept loose and not in bags.
You can put all your dry recycling in this bin, including:
- Glass bottles and jars
- Cardboard boxes and packaging
- Paper and card (put shredded paper in a cardboard box or large paper envelope)
- Metal tins (including empty aerosols), cans, bottle tops, lids and foil
- Plastic bottles, tops, pots, tubs and trays
- Food and drink cartons (including Tetra Paks).
Disposable nappies cannot be recycled and must be bagged and put in with your waste sacks. Find out about reusable cloth nappies.
If your bin is full, we will collect flattened cardboard placed neatly next to your bin.
Find out more about what goes in your bin by watching our video:
Putting your bin out
We collect recycling every other week. View your waste collection day.
Put your bin out by 7am on your collection day and leave it out until 4pm or until we have emptied it.
Leave the bin at the edge of your property, next to the road or your agreed collection point.
Find out where to leave your wheelie bins if you live in New Ash Green or on the Spitals Cross Estate.
Ensure your bin is not overflowing and the lid is closed
REMEMBER: Different vehicles will empty your wheelie bins and food waste at different times of the day, and times may change from week to week.
- Let us know if there is a fault or problem and you need to order a new recycling bin
- If you are unable to put your bin out for collection and return it afterwards due to health or mobility reasons, you can apply for an assisted collection.
- Report a missed collection.
Green reusable recycling bags
Green reusable recycling bags cannot be used for your recycling from 12 October 2026. After this date:
- You can keep your bag and reuse it
- Alternatively, we will collect unwanted bags for recycling from early 2027. We will provide further details nearer the time.