Bin stickers
If you have been given a sticker on your bin, here you will find out what they mean.
Overfilled bin
You will have been given this sticker for one or more of the following reasons
- Bagged waste next to your bin (side waste)
- Overfilling your bin (lid not closed)
We work out how many full bins we can fit in one bin wagon, then work out our collection rounds. If we take additional waste:
- it means more trips back to base to empty the bin wagon, taking extra time
- it costs more money to dispose of excess waste
- it means other people may not get their bins emptied on their day.
Action you need to take
Please remove waste from your bin until the lid closes and/or dispose of the side waste.
- You can take this waste to your local household waste recycling centre.
Bin is too heavy
You will have been given this because
- Your bin is too heavy to be emptied safely
Our crews empty hundreds of bins a day. One of our crew needs to be able to safely move the bin from where you leave it, into the road and to the bin wagon. The bin wagon then has to lift and empty two bins at the same time, this has a weight limit to safely empty bins.
Action you need to take
- Please remove heavy items from your bin.
Contaminated brown bin
You will have been given this sticker because the wrong items have been put in your brown garden waste bin.
We can only collect particular materials in this bin for the following reasons:
- It is important that garden waste collected for composting is as clean as possible in order to ensure that a quality product can be made.
- The equipment at the recycling centre can be damaged by bulky items such as large stones or branches. Repairing this specialist equipment is very expensive.
- Certain contaminates must be treated differently so we cannot take them. For example, processing of animal waste must comply with the Animal By-Products Regulations so cannot go through our recycling process.
- The recycling facility cannot process items that have been contaminated. An entire bin wagon of recycling can sometimes be spoiled and wasted.
Action you need to take
Please remove waste from your bin until the lid closes and/or dispose of the side waste.
- Remove the items that cannot be recycled by Kirklees Council and re-present your bin on the next collection date.
- Find out what you can and can't put in your brown bin: Brown Bins