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Camden

Your local recycling rate is...

26%

Check out how your borough recycling rate compares to others...

  • Barking & Dagenham25%
  • Barnet32%
  • Bexley54%
  • Brent34%
  • Bromley51%
  • Camden26%
  • City of London29%
  • Croydon49%
  • Ealing48%
  • Enfield33%
  • Greenwich33%
  • Hackney28%
  • Hammersmith & Fulham26%
  • Haringey30%
  • Harrow39%
  • Havering38%
  • Hillingdon37%
  • Hounslow32%
  • Islington30%
  • Kensington & Chelsea29%
  • Kingston upon Thames49%
  • Lambeth32%
  • Lewisham27%
  • Merton42%
  • Newham20%
  • Redbridge25%
  • Richmond upon Thames44%
  • Southwark35%
  • Sutton49%
  • Tower Hamlets22%
  • Waltham Forest32%
  • Wandsworth24%
  • Westminster20%

If you live in a house or a flat within a house, your service may include...

Recycling

Green wheelie bin | Collected weekly

Recycling

Green box | Collected weekly

Recycling

Clear recycling sack | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black wheelie bin | Collected weekly or every other week

Rubbish

Black bin bag | Collected weekly or every other week

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small green caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected once a week

Small electricals, batteries and clothes

Request recycling sacks from the council or call Veolia on 020 3567 8105

If you live on an estate or in a flat with communal bins, your service may include...

Recycling

Black communal bin | collections vary but will be at least weekly

Rubbish

Green communal bin | collections vary but will be at least weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small green kitchen caddy | collections vary but will be at least weekly

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Brown communal bin | collections vary but will be at least weekly

If you live in a flat above a shop, your service may include...

Recycling

Clear recycling bag | Time-banded collections*

Rubbish

Orange bin bag | Time-banded collections*

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

*Some flats above shops have time-banded collections meaning you’ll need to put your recycling and rubbish out at specific times of day.

You can recycle...

Plastic bottles

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

Paper

Cardboard

Tins and cans

Aerosols

Glass bottles and jars

Foil

Food and drink cartons

You can't recycle...

PPE

Black plastic and bin bags

Nappies

Polystyrene

Crisp packets

Wipes and wet wipes

Plastic film

Blister packs

Sweet wrappers

Food and drink pouches

Squeezy toothpaste tubes

Garden waste

If you have a garden, you can sign up for a paid garden waste collection. Collected once a week in white sacks or brown wheelie bin. Share collections with neighbours to save money! 

Bulky waste

You can book a paid bulky waste collection if you have large items you no longer want.

Useful information

Your local council website

Order bins

Your local reuse and recycling centre

Regis Road, Kentish Town, NW5 3EW

A-Z of recycling

You can use our A-Z search to find out if something can be recycled and how to recycle it properly.

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