• Always wash your tin foil thoroughly before recycling
• If you collect drinks cans as part of a Cash for Cans scheme, you may be able to sell used aluminium foil too.

As well as tin foil, you can also recycle these other aluminium items:

• Milk bottle tops
• Barbeque and freezing trays
• Cigarette and tobacco foil

You can’t recycle: crisp packets or any other items of foil coated with plastic

Re-use your tin foil

• Wash your tin foil and re-use it for cooking
• Save take-away cartons for storing portions of food in the freezer
• Cut cleaned tin foil into tiny shapes for use as decorative glitter or other craft