Ipswich City Council

Recycling

What can you place in your yellow-lidded recycling bin?

Paper, newspaper, magazines, junk mail
Cardboard boxes and cardboard packaging
Milk and juice cartons
Pizza boxes (no food)
Glass bottles and jars
Aluminium (drink) cans
Steel (food) cans
Aerosol cans
Rigid plastic bottles and containers (no styrofoam)

Please place items loosely in your recycling bin. NO PLASTIC BAGS!

Please ensure that you only place these materials in your recycling bin. If it is not on this list then it cannot be recycled in Ipswich.

Where does my recycling go?

The contents of your recycling bin are transported by the recycling truck to a Material Recovery Facility (MRF). At the MRF, recyclables are sorted by a series of processes, machines and hand separation into categories of materials i.e. steel, glass etc. The materials are then sent to a number of recycling manufacturers to be made into new items. It is important that the materials are free from contamination. If contamination occurs at any stage, the whole load of recyclables may have to be sent to landfill.

Recycling tips

All recyclable materials, including paper and cardboard, should be placed loosely in the recycling bin, NOT in plastic bags.
Please rinse all food containers. Many of your recyclables are sorted by hand and it is extremely unhygenic and unpleasant for the sorting staff to handle dirty containers. Tip: use old water at the end of washing up to clean the recyclable containers and help conserve water as well!
Please ensure all bottles jars and containers are empty before recycling them.
Remove lids from bottles, jars and containers. Place them in the recycling bin separately.
Labels do not need to be removed.
Only recycle clean paper and cardboard.
Remove straws and other objects from drink containers before recycling.

Last Updated 26 Oct 2009 |

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