Yes, you can … You can recycle foil at your nearest recycling bank.

How should I recycle foil?

• Always wash your kitchen foil thoroughly before recycling.

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

• Milk bottle tops
• Barbeque and freezing trays
• Cigarette and tobacco foil
• Screw top lids from wine bottles

The scrunch test

It’s important to note that items such as crisp packets are not made of aluminum foil (which is a thin sheet of metal) but of metallised plastic film, which is a plastic film coated with a sort of metallic ink.  Therefore you should not include these with your aluminum recycling.

Do the scrunch test  -  scrunch an item you’re not sure about in your hand and, if it springs back, it’s not aluminum.