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You can use any colour of bins these are examples: black, green and silver.
it depends on where you live contact your local council they will have a full list of what they will collect
Any kind of paper, glass, plastic, aluminum foil, and cardboard. There are more items that you can put into recycling bins, but there are a few of them.
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