Orange bins - recycling
Orange sacks are no longer available to collect from Council premises.
Please compact your recycling: crush, squish, stomp on, tear up and make smaller anything you can to fit more into your recycling bin – the more space you save, the more recycling you can fit in.
If the orange lidded bin is full before collection, you can put out extra recycling next to the orange bin in a clear or white ‘see through’ sack, so it does not blow away, and this will be collected.
Please flat pack large cardboard boxes and place out no earlier than the day of collection, as wet cardboard cannot be recycled.
If you have a large amount of cardboard packaging, please take it to the Household Waste Recycling Centre in Bedford.
Any recycling put out in black bags will not be collected.
If you need assistance with your recycling, please contact recycling@bedford.gov.uk or 01234 718060.
What you can put in your recycling bins or sacks
- Paper, cardboard and cartons.
- Metal packaging including tins, cans, foil and aerosols.
- Plastic food and drink packaging including bottles, pots, tubs, and trays and household cleaning/toiletry plastic bottles/containers (not including flexible plastics such as bags, wrapping or film or hard plastics such as toys and garden furniture).
Please wash dirty food and drink containers, squash items to save space, and place items loose in the bin.
Find out more with the Recycle Now tool
You can use the Recycling Locator tool below to find out if you can recycle specific items at home, or where to recycle it in your local area.