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Your local recycling rate is...

30%

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

  • Barking & Dagenham33%
  • Barnet27%
  • Bexley44%
  • Brent33%
  • Bromley49%
  • Camden28%
  • City of London30%
  • Croydon37%
  • Ealing48%
  • Enfield34%
  • Greenwich29%
  • Hackney26%
  • Hammersmith & Fulham26%
  • Haringey27%
  • Harrow30%
  • Havering37%
  • Hillingdon37%
  • Hounslow36%
  • Islington28%
  • Kensington & Chelsea23%
  • Kingston upon Thames47%
  • Lambeth31%
  • Lewisham23%
  • Merton43%
  • Newham26%
  • Redbridge31%
  • Richmond upon Thames40%
  • Southwark32%
  • Sutton43%
  • Tower Hamlets18%
  • Waltham Forest33%
  • Wandsworth22%
  • Westminster24%

Collections will vary depending on which estate or block of flats you live, but generally your service may include...

Recycling

Clear sacks (on-street) | Collected daily Monday to Saturday

Recycling

Green-lidded communal bins | Collected daily Monday to Saturday

Rubbish

White bags with red-writing (on-street) | Council-provided | Collected daily Monday to Saturday

Rubbish

Chutes | Collected daily Monday to Saturday

Rubbish

Red-lidded communal bins | Collected daily Monday to Saturday

Food waste recycling

Brown small bin | Collected Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Food waste recycling

Green small bin | Collected Monday, Wednesday and Friday

You can recycle...

Paper

Cardboard

Food and drink cartons

Glass bottles and jars

Tins and cans

Aerosols

Foil

Plastic bottles

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

You can't recycle...

Crisp packets

Kitchen towel

You can recycle the cardboard tube!

Polystyrene

Nappies

Plastic bags and film

Bulky waste

You can book a paid bulky waste collection if you have large items you no longer want. Call 020 7606 3110 to book a collection.

Useful information

Your local council website

Call 020 7606 3110 to order more recycling and rubbish bags, or pick them up from your local library.

Your local reuse and recycling centre

Tower Hamlets Reuse and Recycling Centre, Yabsley St, Poplar, London E14 9RG​

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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