Festive recycling: what goes where
Green lidded and green wheeled recycling bins
- Paper - including wrapping paper, envelopes and Christmas cards except those with glitter or foil
- Cardboard and drinks cartons: flattened and folded
- Plastic bottles with lids, pots, tubs and trays - including empty plastic toiletry / household cleaning bottles
- Tins / cans
- Empty aerosols
- Clean tin foil including mince pie cases
Blue boxes and purple lidded communal glass bins
- Glass bottles and jars
- Blue boxes only: small electricals for example, hairdryers, toasters and batteries in a clear plastic bag left on top of your blue box
Grey lidded food recycling bins
All your cooked and uncooked food including meat and bones.
Christmas Trees
On your first January garden waste collection you can put Christmas trees in your garden waste bin. If it is over seven foot, please chop it in half and remove the branches.
Bulky waste
Larger items do not go into household waste collections.
Use the Edinburgh Reuse map to find out where you can donate
- unwanted furniture
- electrical items
- white goods
- books
- clothes
- sports equipment
- toys
- games.
For things that cannot be reused
