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Kingston upon Thames

Your local recycling rate is...

47%

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...

Paper & card recycling

Black wheelie bin with blue lid or clear sacks | Collected every two weeks

Mixed recycling

Green wheelie bin or blue sacks | Collected every 2 weeks (alternates with paper and card)

Mixed recycling

Green box with blue sacks | Collected every 2 weeks (alternates with paper and card)

Rubbish

Black bin or red sacks | Collected every two weeks

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected every week

Small electricals

Place in an untied plastic bag on top of your bin

Batteries

Place in an untied plastic bag on top of your bin

Textiles and shoes

Place in a tied plastic bag on top of your bin

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

Paper & card recycling

Black communal bin with blue lid | Collected every two weeks

Paper & card recycling

Black wheelie bin with blue lid | Collected every two weeks

Mixed recycling

Black communal bins with green lids | Collected every 2 weeks

Mixed recycling

Green wheelie bins | Collected every 2 weeks

Rubbish

Silver metal bin with black lid | Collected every week

Rubbish

Black wheelie bin | Collected every week

Food waste recycling

Brown wheelie bin | Collected every week

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

No recycling

Recycling service coming soon!*

Rubbish

Any type carrier bag | Collected weekly

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

*You can’t recycle from home yet. Search for a recycling bank near you.

If you live in a household with no space for storing a bin, but with some outside space, your service may include...

Paper & card recycling

Clear sacks | Collected every 2 weeks

Mixed recycling

Blue stripe sacks | Collected every 2 weeks

Rubbish

Red stripe sacks | Collected every 2 weeks

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected every week

You can recycle...

Paper

Cardboard

Glass bottles and jars

Tins and cans

Aerosols

Plastic bottles

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

Food and drink cartons

Food waste

You can't recycle...

Plastic bags and film

Polystyrene

Crisp packets

Food pouches

Squeezy toothpaste tubes

Nappies

Garden waste

If you have a garden, you can sign up for paid garden waste collections. Dark grey with green bin lid. Collected every 2 weeks.

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 new bins

Your local reuse and recycling centre

Chapel Mill Road (off Villiers Road), Kingston, KT1 3GZ

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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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