Waste and Recycling A-Z
Food tins and cans
- Cans
- Tins
Please rinse.
All clean food tins and drink cans can be recycled using your clear sack or orange-lidded bank recycling service.
See our page What to put in clear sacks and orange-lidded recycling banks for more details
We cannot recycle
- Aerosol cans
- Foil or foil containers
- Large biscuit tins
- Sweet tins
These cause problems at the sorting plant, but you can recycle them in the scrap metal bay at Household Waste and Recycling Centre in Smugglers Way, Wandsworth.