The brown bin scheme

Garden waste and cardboard, plastics, cans and tins is collected in a brown bin with a brown lid and the recyclable waste bin in a brown bin with a grey lid. So far this year homes with the brown bins have achieved a recycling rate of 39%. The highest performing areas are recycling more than 50% of their household waste. Well done!

9,000 households across the city have been added to the brown bin scheme recently and other areas will be added soon. This will bring the number of properties receiving the brown bin collection to just over half the city. For more information about exactly where this scheme will operate please telephone the Recycling Hotline on 915 2126, visit the brown bin page, or complete the online form.

If you have three bins, they will be collected on alternate weeks. One week the green bin for household waste will be collected and the next week your brown bin with brown lid and your brown bin with grey lid will be collected.

• Garden Waste - Brown bin with brown lid
  Garden waste can be recycled in your brown bin with brown lid. You can also compost a lot of garden and kitchen waste in your own garden.
  
  
• Recyclable Household Waste - Brown bin with grey lid
  Recylable items such as paper, newspaper and magazines, steel and aluminium cans, plastic tubs and pots and plastic bottles (no tops) can all be placed in your brown bin with grey lid.
  
  
• The blue bag Scheme
  The blue bag scheme is available to many residents that can not at the moment use our recycling brown bins. The Blue Bag is used to for the collect paper and magazines. If you need more information about the blue bag scheme visit the blue bag web page or fill out the online form.

Recycling sites

Nottingham City Council has a number of recycling sites where you can take, glass, cans and tins, textiles and paper and cardboard. You can now recycle paper based cartons at five of our recycling sites.

Community Projects and Schools

We work together with a number of community groups and schools to encourage recycling and reducing the amount of waste that people put in their green bin. We provide services such as paper and card banks to schools and the School Waste Action Club. If you want more information about these projects please fill out the online form.

Personal or financial data and recycling collections

Be careful with your letters and bills and make sure your details are not stolen and used fraudulently. Keep confidential details out of paper recycling collections.

Household Waste and Recycling Centres

The City has two Household Waste and Recycling Centres that the public can use for household rubbish: The primary role of Household Waste & Recycling Centres is to take the public's overspill waste that will not fit into their wheeled bins.

Podcast

Information on recycling and the use of brown bins is now available as a podcast.

Contact details

Waste Management
Tyne Building
Eastcroft
London Road
Nottingham
NG2 3AH
Tel: 0115 915 2126
Fax: 0115 915 2064
Email: waste.management@nottinghamcity.gov.uk