Cleaning products (washing and detergent bottles)

Find out how to reduce and recycle cleaning products.

Please note, the recycling information below applies from first week of June when the new Better Recycling service starts.

Reduce

When available, consider using refills rather than buying a new container.

Recycle

You can recycle all empty cleaning product bottles and plastic containers.

Loose bottle tops are too small to survive the pre-sorting process at the recycling facility. They won’t get recycled unless you wash and squash your empty plastics bottles and then place the top back on.

You can then recycle:

To find more information about which plastics you can and can't recycle see our "plastic" entries.