Want to recycle more? Find out what else you can recycle in your local area using Recycle Now's recycling locator.
You can also find handy hints on how to reduce, reuse and recycle more on the #LeedsByExample website.
Crisp packets
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Large supermarkets usually provide collection containers at the front of the store for plastic packaging that cannot go in your green bin, for example, the foil-lined crisp bags and chocolate wrappers.
Crockery, ceramics, China
You can take broken crockery to your local recycling centre where you should put it in the rubble and inerts skip. It will be used for road building or surface cover on a landfill site. Restrictions apply for disposing of some types of rubbish at our household recycling sites including ceramics. To find out more please see our guide to DIY waste disposal.
Crutches
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See 'Walking aids'.
Cutlery
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Donate cutlery that is good enough to be reused to your local charity shop or drop off at your local household waste recycling centre's reuse container.
Metal cutlery that isn't good enough to be reused can go in your local household waste recycling centre's scrap metal container.
