What to put in your bin
Click on the bins, bags or boxes below to find out what can go inside of them.
If something cannot go into one of the bins below, you may be able to recycle it at one of Flintshire's Household Recycling Centres.
You can also visit Wales Recycles to find out how and where you can recycle it!
Wales Recycles (external link)
Collected every week
Yes
- Cheese and yoghurt
- Eggs (including shells)
- Fish / meat (inc. bones and skin)
- Food past its use-by date
- Fruit and vegetable peelings
- Mouldy food & leftovers
- Pasta, rice and cereal
- Pet food
- Solid fat
- Stale bread, cakes and confectionery
- Tea bags and coffee grounds
- Windfalls
No
- Any material that is not food waste
- Cut flowers
- Garden waste
- Liquids
- Non-food products including nappies
- Oil
- Packaging of any kind
Collected every week
No
- Broken glass
- Ceramics and china
- Drinking glasses
- Glass panes
- Light bulbs
- Pyrex
- Window panes
Please empty and rinse items
Collected every week
Yes
- Aerosols (with plastic lids and buttons removed)
- Aluminium foil (clean - no grease / food residue)
- Biscuit / sweet tins etc
- Drink bottles
- Drinks cans
- Food tins
- Food trays
- Fruit punnets
- Household cleaners (including trigger spray)
- Margarine tubs
- Pet food cans
- Plastic bottles
- Shower gel / shampoo
- Tetrapak cartons (juice, custard cartons etc.)
- Yoghurt pots
No
- Black plastic
- Bubble wrap
- Cling film
- Crisp packets
- Hard plastic
- Polystyrene
- Plant pots
- Pringles tubes
- Toothpaste tubes
- Toys
Please empty and rinse items
Collected every week
Yes
- Boxes (flattened)
- Catalogues
- Directories / Yellow Pages
- Egg boxes
- Envelopes
- Greeting cards (tape / plastic / glitter removed)
- Letters / junk mail (with addresses and plastic windows removed)
- Magazines / brochures
- Newspaper
- Office type paper
- Shredded paper (bagged separately)
No
- Cards / gift bags with glitter or other attachments
- Dirty paper plates / cups
- Foil / plastic wrapping paper
- Kitchen roll
- Photographs
- Pringles / Twiglet tubes
- Tetrapak cartons (juice cartons) (these go in your grey bag)
- Tissues
Please keep cardboard and paper dry
Collected every week
Please place any batteries in a clear plastic bag
Collected every two weeks (this will change to every three weeks from 28 April 2025)
Yes
- Animal waste (bagged)
- Bubble wrap
- Crisp packets
- Plastic bags and wrappers (not currently recyclable at home, to find out where to recycle in the community visit Wales Recycles)
- Plastic film
- Polystyrene
No
- Asbestos
- Business waste
- Clinical waste - medical waste, needles
- Cooking oil
- Dead pets
- DIY items – paint, paint tins, stones, gravel, rubble, builders’ waste, tiles
- Electrical items
- Engine oil
- Hazardous waste (solvents, chemicals, paint, engine oil, batteries, fluorescent tubes and light bulbs containing mercury, poisons, baits)
- Garden waste
- Food waste
- Recyclable items
Subscription Services
The below are optional subscription collections:
Yes
- Flowers
- Grass cuttings
- Hedge clippings
- Leaves
- Pot plants
- Twigs and small branches
- Weeds
No
- Animal waste
- Compost bags, pots or other rubbish
- Garden furniture or tools
- Invasive weeds such as Japanese Knotweed or Giant Hogweed
- Kitchen waste
- Large branches
- Rubble
- Soil
- Windfalls
Absorbent hygiene products (AHP) is a free of charge subscription service for the collection of nappies and incontinence products.
Once applications have been received and assessed, orange boxes with lids will be delivered to eligible households upon request; thereafter collections will take place weekly until they are no longer required.
The day of collection may not fall on your usual day for waste and recycling collections. For nappy and AHP collections only, the orange box can be collected from just inside your property boundary, but it must be in view for the collection crew.
We provide a free of charge subscription service for the collection of clinical waste from your home, which includes suitable containers and bags for storing and presenting waste for collection. We can collect dressings, bandages, stoma bags, catheters, and sharps.
These items must not be placed in your black wheeled bin.
A collection point, day of collection, frequency of collection and any other specific requirements regarding this service will be arranged with you.
Please note: for safety reasons, needles must be secured in a standard yellow sharps container before placing out for collection. These are supplied free of charge by your doctors surgery, clinic, or hospital (if a continued sharps collection is required, we will replace containers upon collection). For more information and to apply, please email streetscene@flintshire.gov.uk or call 01352 701234.
Please place any needles in a sharps container supplied by your doctor, clinic or hospital, then place this alongside your yellow sack