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Greenwich

Your local recycling rate is...

33%

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 with blue lid | Collected weekly

Recycling

Clear recycling sacks | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Green wheelie bin with black lid | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black bin bags | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Green kitchen caddy

Food and garden waste recycling (outdoors)

Green bin with green lid | Collected weekly

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

Recycling

Blue communal bin | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black communal bin | Collected weekly

Food and garden waste

Green communal bin | Collected weekly

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

Recycling

Clear sacks (free from council) | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black sacks | Collected weekly

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

You can recycle...

Paper

Cardboard

Tins and cans

Aerosols

Foil

Glass bottles and jars

Plastic bottles

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

Drink cartons

You can't recycle...

Nappies

Crisp packets

Polystyrene

Wipes and wet wipes

Blister packs

Plastic film

Sweet wrappers

Food and drink pouches

Squeezy toothpaste tubes

Plastic toys (hard plastic)

Bulky waste

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

Useful information

Your local council website

Order new recycling sacks

Your local reuse and recycling centre

Nathan Way, London SE28 0AF

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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