Household collections

What goes in my bins, bags and boxes?

Your weekly recycling collections

Every week we collect food waste, plastic bottles, glass, cans, paper and textiles from homes in Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, Todmorden and surrounding areas.

Your fortnightly non-recyclable waste (refuse) collections

For any non-recyclable waste that remains, you have a wheelie bin, where appropriate, which will be emptied once a fortnight. Households that are not suitable for a wheelie bin have a maximum of five standard issued refuse sacks collected each fortnight.

Your bins, bags and boxes

The containers you need are - a recycling box for glass and cans, two brown food caddies (one large and one small), a green bag for paper, a white sack for plastic bottles, and where appropriate a wheelie bin. Textiles can be placed into a carrier bag. If you don't have all of these containers please use the request a recycling container online form or call Customer First on 0845 245 7000.

What's collected each week?

Collection receptacle	Material(s)
	Cans, glass bottles and jars Yes Please… Any food and drinks cans (please rinse and squash your cans) Drinks bottles, sauce and food jars and any clear, green, brown or blue glass bottles and containers (Please rinse your bottles and jars). No Thanks… Can lids – please remove these as they can get trapped in the can-sorting machinery. Broken glass (please wrap it carefully and place it in your refuse bin) Crockery and Pyrex.
	Cooked or uncooked food waste Yes Please… Meat, vegetables, cereals, bread, rice, pasta, peelings, bones etc. Please only use the compostable liners provided (no plastic bags or packaging). No Thanks… Pet food or animal waste.
	Plastic bottles Yes Please… Any plastic bottle which held a liquid, eg Milk bottles, drinks bottles, detergent bottles, cleaning fluid bottles, shampoo bottles, etc. No Thanks… Bottle tops/lids (as these can get trapped in the sorting machinery). Any other types of plastic packaging such as yogurt pots, margarine tubs, food packaging, etc.
	Newspapers and magazines Yes Please… Newspapers, magazines, brochures, office paper, junk mail (remove plastic wrapping), telephone directories, catalogues, thin card (cereal packets, food packaging sleeves and toilet roll holders), etc. No Thanks… Hardback books, waxed cartons, corrugated or thick cardboard.
	Textiles Please put any clean textiles that you would like recycled neatly into a separate carrier bag. Yes Please… Any unwanted textiles; clothes, blankets, bedding, shoes (pairs only and please tie laces together), curtains, etc. No Thanks… Duvets, cushions or pillows, or any dirty items.
	Non-recyclable household waste Refuse such as packaging, nappies, animal waste, hoover dust, etc. can be placed in your wheelie bin, or in the black plastic sacks provided if your house is not issued with a wheelie bin. Please note: Non-recyclable waste is collected every other week. Check your collection days by visiting your Collection day finder.

Can't find what you're looking for? Please use the A to Z of Waste and Recycling.

How to use your food caddies

The Council provides two food waste caddies (one small 7 litre caddy for indoors and a larger 25 litre caddy for outdoors) and some compostable liners. Place one of the liners inside the small kitchen caddy. Once the smaller caddy is full, tie up the full liner and put it into the larger caddy.

You should keep the smaller caddy in your house; don’t place it outside for collection. Place the larger caddy out for collection on the weekly collection day. Put the black handle fully down, this locks the caddy lid.

Only use the compostable liners provided. Caddies containing any other type of liner will not be emptied as this will contaminate the entire consignment of food waste. When you are getting towards the end of your roll of caddy liners, please leave a note on top of the large caddy on collection day, requesting more liners.

Please use your food caddy for all of your cooked or uncooked food waste including: Any type of food leftovers, meat, vegetables, cereals, bread, rice, pasta, peelings, bones. Please do not use your kitchen caddy for any animal food or animal waste. Contaminated loads of food waste are rejected by the composting site and sent to landfill.

Household collections

What goes in my bins, bags and boxes?

Your weekly recycling collections

Your fortnightly non-recyclable waste (refuse) collections

Your bins, bags and boxes

What's collected each week?

Cans, glass bottles and jars

Cooked or uncooked food waste

Plastic bottles

Newspapers and magazines

Textiles

Non-recyclable household waste

How to use your food caddies

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