About £75,000 is to be spent next year telling Wolverhampton residents not to put the “wrong” type of rubbish in wheelie bins.

A “communications plan” — including putting stickers on bins — comes on top of almost £70,000 already spent for promoting recycling food waste in slop buckets.

Next year Wolverhampton City Council plans to get rid of green boxes for paper cans and glass and white bags for plastic and cardboard and give every house a new wheelie bin — almost half the size of the existing one.

Residents will be asked to put all their “dry” recycling into their old 240-litre black wheelie bin and to use the new 140-litre one for rubbish that cannot be recycled.

The smaller bin is intended to coax people into putting food scraps in slop buckets — which were delivered to 98,000 homes between January and March — while maintaining a weekly bin collection.

The funding for the slop bucket “communications plan” came from the government body Waste and Resources Action Programme.

Next year’s communications plan will cost £75,000 in total but there is £33,000 left over from last year’s £100,000 budget.

The money will be used to print 98,000 leaflets, booklets and bin stickets by September and to deliver them along with the new bins by March 2012.

Stickers will be put on everyone’s old wheelie bin telling them they can no longer use it for normal rubbish and have to use the smaller one instead.

Alistair Merrick, the council’s chief officer for commercial services and public realm, said: “As with the 2010 plan, two information leaflets will be delivered.

“However, information in advance of the service launch will be included within the annual calendar rather than being delivered as a separate item in order to deliver cost savings in line with public expectations.”

The half size bin was originally meant to be rolled out along with the slop buckets but was delayed while the council is still sorting out its controversial single status arrangements, which could see bin men lose out on thousands of pounds a year.