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Hackney

Your local recycling rate is...

26%

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%

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

Recycling

Green sacks | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black wheelie bin | Collected every 2 weeks

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small blue caddy | Council provides free compostable liners

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large blue caddy | Collected weekly | Council provides free compostable liners

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

Recycling

Black communal bin with orange lid | Collected weekly

Recycling

Council provides free orange reusable recycling bags

Rubbish

Silver metal communal bins | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black communal bins | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small blue caddy | Council provides free compostable liners

Food waste recycling

Grey communal bins | Collected weekly

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

Recycling

Green recycling sacks | Collected daily | Time-banded*

Rubbish

Black bin bags | Collected daily | Time-banded*

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

*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...

Paper

Cardboard

Tins and cans

Aerosols

Glass bottles and jars

Plastic bottles

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

Juice cartons

Foil

You can't recycle...

PPE

Crisp packets

Wipes and wet wipes

Polystyrene

Nappies

Garden waste

You can sign up for a free garden waste collection. Brown wheelie bin or brown bag. Collected every 2 weeks.

Bulky waste

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

Useful information

Your local council website

Order new bins

Your local reuse and recycling centre

Islington, 40 Hornsey Street, N7 8HU

Or you can visit:
Walthamstow, South Access Road, E17 8AX

Leyton, Gateway Road, E10 5BY

Wood Green, Western Road, N22 6UG

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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