Plants being grown in recycled plastic cups

About us

London Recycles is the recycling campaign for London

London Recycles is supported by the Mayor of London, collaborates with London’s councils and waste authorities, and is managed by ReLondon.

We’re here to help Londoners recycle more things, more often, and we’re also on a mission to encourage Londoners to reduce the amount they consume by keeping their stuff in use for longer through repairing, sharing, and renting.

About ReLondon

ReLondon is a partnership of the Mayor of London and the London boroughs to improve waste and resource management and transform the city into a leading low carbon circular economy.

We are living through a climate emergency. We believe we can catalyse transformational change in London by inspiring and empowering the action of others. We can mobilise our boroughs, businesses, and citizens to change their policies, practices, and behaviours, to revolutionise the way we use stuff.

Together we can change the world.

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🌟Got yourself a shiny new food waste bin (aka caddy)? Over the next few months, more and more London households will be able to recycle their food waste, meaning your food scraps will transformed into electricity or fertiliser for farmers. 

👉 Find more info on what you can and can't recycle at our website.

 #foodwaste   #foodrecycling   #recyclingtips
Millions of vapes and pods are still being binned every week in the UK, causing dangerous fires and wasting valuable materials. 🔥

♻️ The good news is that they can be recycled! And all shops that sell vapes and vape pods are legally required to take back old ones for recycling, so it should be as easy to recycle them as it is to buy them.

👉 Use @recycleyourelectricals_ locator to find shops where you can drop them off safely.

 #RecycleYourElectricals
Did you know that aluminium foil can be recycled again and again? Save your Easter egg foils, scrunch them into a tennis ball size and recycle. This saves on new materials for foil being produced. Boom. Happy Easter.
All of them!! Good news: recycling is getting a glow up. From 31 March, rules will be in place across England to make sure every home can recycle the same stuff, including new materials like foil, cartons and FOOD! 

Find out what you can recycle at home via our services at a glance page. 

 #simplerrecycling   #foodisntrubbish
📣 Last chance to get your free Repair Voucher and get up to £50 off the cost to fix your tech!

📍 If you live in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington or Waltham Forest you have until 31 March to get your voucher - visit https://zurl.co/OzYEw 

 #repairvoucher   #electronicrepair   #repair
☪️ Did you know that 98% of Muslim people agree that food waste is an important issue? (Source: @lfwh_uk)

🍽️ To help combat food waste this Eid, we've  rounded up some helpful tips to make your Eid feast go further - swipe to see what you can do with leftovers to keep them out of the bin.

🌟 Wishing all Londoners a healthy, happy and waste-free Eid. 

 #foodwaste   #eid   #ramadan   #foodwastetips   #leftovers
🛠️ Did you attend a Repair Week event this year? We want to thank those who took part by offering the chance to win £200 worth of repair vouchers.

👉 Visit the link in bio to complete our short feedback survey to help shape future Repair Weeks and be entered into the draw.

 #repairweekldn   #repairweek
📣 It's  #FoodWasteActionWeek  and we're supporting the Love Food Hate Waste campaign to make your food go fuuuuurther – for your pocket AND our planet.

The facts: 
💰 Average family wastes ~£1,000/year on food
🗑️ 4.4 million tonnes of edible food binned in the UK
🌡️ 16 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from food waste

This week's challenge:
🍳 Get creative with leftovers
📝Plan meals to buy only what you need
♻️ Recycle the bits that can't be eaten

Small changes = big impact. 

👉 Find tips and tricks to reduce food waste and recycle right at the London Recycles site.

  #LoveFoodHateWaste

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