Sutton

Your local recycling rate is...

49%

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...

Paper & card recycling

Green wheelie bin | Collected every 2 weeks

Mixed recycling

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

Rubbish

Brown wheelie bin | Collected every 2 weeks

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected every week

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 wheelie bin with blue lid

Mixed recycling

Green communal bin with red lid

Rubbish

Silver metal bin with black lid

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Communal brown bin

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

Recycling

Blue striped sacks | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Red striped sacks | Collected weekly

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...

You can't recycle...

Garden waste

If you have a garden, you can sign up for a paid garden waste collection. Green bin with brown lid collected once 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

Kimpton Park Way, Sutton SM3 9QH

Due to Covid-19, HWRCs have restrictions in place:
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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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