Islington

Your local recycling rate is...

30%

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 box | Collected weekly

Recycling

Clear sacks | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black sacks | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected weekly

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

Recycling

Black communal bins with green lid | Collected at least weekly*

Recycling

Chutes | Collected at least weekly*

Rubbish

Grey communal bin with black lid | Collected at least weekly

Rubbish

Grey wheelie bin with black lid | Collected at least weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Not all flats have this | Small brown indoor caddy | Collected at least weekly

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Not all flats have this | Brown wheelie bin | Collected at least weekly

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Not all flats have this | Black metal housing unit | Collected at least weekly

*Collect your recycling in council-provided clear sacks.

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

Recycling

Clear recycling bags | Time-banded collections*

Rubbish

Black sacks | Time-banded collections*

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...

You can't recycle...

Garden waste

If you have a garden and have your bins collected from your doorstep each week, you’ll have a free weekly garden waste collection. Brown hessian sack.


Bulky waste

You can book a paid bulky waste collection if you have large items you no longer want. You can also book a free re-usable furniture collection from Bright Sparks social enterprise.


Useful information

Your local council website

To order more recycling containers, log into your My EAccount or pick recycling bags up from your local library. You can also collect free caddy liners from your local library or estate caretaker, officer or concierge.

Your local reuse and recycling centre

40 Hornsey Street, Islington, N7 8HU

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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