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Starting from Wednesday, 1 April, Liverpool residents will have the opportunity to recycle a wider range of items using their blue recycling bins. This update aligns with the Government’s Simpler Recycling initiative introduced through the Environment Act 2021. The goal of this legislation is to standardize recycling collections across England, ensuring that everyone can recycle the same fundamental types of materials.
New additions to the list of recyclable items include various plastic containers such as pots, tubs, yoghurt pots, and fruit punnets. Also accepted are food trays made from plastic or polystyrene, Tetra Paks like milk and juice cartons, as well as plastic and cardboard takeaway containers, including pizza boxes. Other newly recyclable items are aluminium foil trays, aerosol cans including those for deodorant and hairspray, metal and plastic tins used for chocolates or biscuits, and flower pots (except for black ones).
Residents can continue to recycle the existing range of materials as well. These include glass jars and bottles, cans, paper products such as magazines, newspapers, junk mail, and wrapping paper that is neither plastic nor metallic. Other accepted materials are envelopes with plastic windows, cardboard food boxes including egg cartons, cereal boxes without plastic liners, toilet and kitchen roll inner cardboard tubes, and plastic bottles used for drinks, shampoo, and cleaning products.
It is important to remember that all jars, bottles, and tubs should be rinsed to remove any food remains and must not be squashed. Items should be placed loosely in the blue bin rather than being packed tightly together. In Liverpool, dry recycling is collected as a co-mingled collection, meaning paper, cardboard, plastic, and glass are all collected together in one bin. After collection, materials are taken to a Materials Recovery Facility where they are separated and sent to specialist centers for recycling into new products or packaging.
Some households also have access to a grey food waste bin, often referred to as a caddy, designed for leftover food recycling. This food waste collection service is being expanded across Liverpool, with residents notified when their area is part of the next rollout phase. Ultimately, residents will have several bins at home: a blue recycling bin, a purple household waste bin, a two-part grey food waste caddy (one for indoors and one for outdoors), and an optional green bin for garden waste if required.
For further details about Liverpool’s recycling and waste collection services, residents are encouraged to visit the official website
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