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Merton

Your local recycling rate is...

43%

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 bins with blue lid | Collected every 2 weeks (alternates with mixed recycling)

Mixed recycling

Green boxes | Collected every 2 weeks (alternates with mixed recycling)

Rubbish

Black wheelie bin | Collected every 2 weeks

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected every week

Textiles

Place in a tied carrier bag and put out on bin day

Batteries

Place in an open carrier bag and put out on bin day

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

Recycling

Metal communal bin with green lid | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Metal communal bin with black lid | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling

Brown communal bin | Collected weekly

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

Recycling

Purple bags | Collected weekly or twice-weekly if in a time-banded area*

Rubbish

Blue bags | Collected weekly or twice-weekly if in a time-banded area*

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

*Flats above shops may have time-banded collections meaning you’ll need to put your recycling and rubbish out at specific times of day.

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

Paper and 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...

Tins and cans

Aerosols

Glass bottles and jars

Plastic bottles

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

Paper

Cardboard

Food and drink cartons

Foil

You can't recycle...

Plastic film

Polystyrene

Crisp packets

Nappies

Plastic bags

Food pouches

Squeezy toothpaste tubes

Garden waste

If you have a garden, you can sign up for a paid garden waste collection. Brown wheelie bin, 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 containers

Recycling centre

Your local reuse and recycling centre

63-69 Amenity Way, off Garth Road, Morden SM4 4AX

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