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Plastic recycling

What plastic items you can recycle at home.

What you can recycle at home

Put rigid household plastic containers in your recycling bin, such as:

  • drinks bottles
  • bleach bottles and bottles for cleaning products
  • cooking oil bottles
  • laundry detergent and fabric conditioner containers
  • food trays
  • fruit punnets
  • ice cream tubs
  • yoghurt pots
  • margarine containers
  • plastic milk, soup or juice cartons
  • shampoo and shower gel containers

You can also put clear plastic recycling bags from Islington libraries in your recycling bin. 

Plastic polymer numbers

You don't need to use the polymer number to check if you can recycle an item. Please ignore them and use the information on this page.

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