Plastic canister
Guidance
Alias
Intermediate Bulk Container, IBC, mortar tub, plastic can, plastic drum
Plastic canisters are made of hard plastic. You can bring hard plastic items to most of our reuse and recycling centres, or if the item fits, it can go in your general rubbish bin at home.
End of hard plastics recycling trial
We have recently had to stop our hard plastics recycling scheme, so these items will be treated as general waste and sent to our energy recovery facility. This is because our recycling processor recently advised us the UK doesn’t currently have the processing capacity to recycle hard plastics, due to high energy prices and an oversupply of cheaper imported plastic products. We will continue to look for a market for these items in case it is possible for us to resume the scheme.