Southwark

Your local recycling rate is...

32%

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

Blue wheelie bin | Collected every two weeks

Rubbish

Green wheelie bin | Collected every two weeks

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown box | Collected weekly

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

Recycling

Black communal bin with blue lid | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Blue communal bin with black lid | Collected weekly

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

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

Recycling

Council-provided clear sacks | Collected once a week

Rubbish

Black sacks | Collected once a week

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

If you live in a flat above a shop on Walworth Road or Rye Lane you’re in a timed collection zone and sacks will be collected twice a day.

You can recycle...

You can't recycle...

Garden waste

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


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

Veolia Southwark IWMF, 43 Devon St, London SE15 1AL

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, HWRCs are currently by appointment only:
Book a time in advance

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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