Richmond upon Thames

Your local recycling rate is...

40%

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

Blue box | Collected weekly

Mixed containers recycling

Black box | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black sacks and/or dustbin (buy your own) | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small green caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large green caddy | Collected weekly

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

Paper & card recycling

Black wheelie bin | Collected weekly

Mixed containers recycling

Black wheelie bin | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black communal bin | Collected weekly

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

Except from trial locations. Service will be expanded in 2021/22

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

Paper & card recycling

Blue sacks | Collected weekly

Mixed containers recycling

Green sacks | Collected weekly

Recycling banks

Rubbish

Black sacks | Collected weekly

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

To find your closest recycling bank, click here.

You can recycle...

You can't recycle...

Garden waste

You can sign up for a paid fortnightly garden waste collection. Green wheelie bin with blue lid. Alternatively, if you only want garden waste collected occasionally you can purchase single-use biodegradable garden waste sacks – these are blue.


Bulky waste

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


Useful information

Your local council website

Order new containers

Your local reuse and recycling centre

Townmead Road (off Mortlake Road), Kew, TW9 4EL

A-Z of recycling

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