Items smaller than a credit card go in the red general waste bin.
Small items (under 5 cm in diameter)
Items under 5 cm in diameter are too small to be recycled effectively. At recycling facilities, items are fed through screening devices such as trommels to be sorted. Trommels act as big sieves, meaning very small items are lost and discarded as waste. Small items can also get jammed in machinery.
Items that are too small to be recycled on their own include:
- bottle lids and caps (reattach to empty bottles to have them recycled)
- bread tags
- single-serve sauces (soy sauce fish, tomato sauce packets)
- asthma inhalers
- tea light candles
