Our waste and recycling A-Z explains which items can go in your green and blue bins.
To reveal the items, simply select a letter they begin with.
Magazines
How To Dispose:
In your blue bin.
Details and restrictions:
Please remember not to put your paper inside plastic carrier bags before you place into your recycling bin as plastic bags contaminate the recycling process.
Margarine Tubs
How To Dispose:
In your blue bin.
Details and restrictions:
Containers should be free from food waste before recycling.
Medicines
How To Dispose:
Clean empty glass medicine bottles can be placed in the local glass recycling banks.
Details and restrictions:
Any unused medicines should be returned to your local chemist or pharmacy. Do not pass them onto other people.
Milk Bottles - Plastic
How To Dispose:
In your blue bin or at local Recycle Points such as those at supermarkets, car parks.
Details and restrictions:
None
Milk Bottles - Glass
How To Dispose:
Glass milk bottles should be returned to your Milkman.
Details and restrictions:
None
Milk Cartons - Cardboard
How To Dispose:
Cardboard milk cartons can be taken to either the bring sites at New Street Car Park, Retford; Prospect Precinct, Worksop or Scrooby Road, Harworth. Alternatively These items can also be placed in your green bin.
Details and restrictions:
None
Metals
How To Dispose:
Scrap metal can be recycled at the Retford or Worksop Household Waste Recycling Centre or via a scrap metal dealer.
Details and restrictions:
None
Mobile Phones
How To Dispose:
The shop supplying your phone may take the old one back or provide advice as to where you can take it for free disposal. Alternatively you can take most unwanted electrical items from your home to the Retford or Worksop Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Details and restrictions:
None
Monitors - (Computer)
How To Dispose:
The shop supplying this item should take the old one away or provide advice as to where you can take it for free disposal. Alternatively you can take most unwanted electrical items to the Retford or Worksop Household Waste recycling Centre.
Details and restrictions:
None