Tower Hamlets

Your local recycling rate is...

22%

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...

Recycling

Purple wheelie bin | Collected weekly

Recycling

Clear sacks | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black sacks | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small silver caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected weekly

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

Recycling

Purple communal bins | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Chutes | Collected at least weekly

Rubbish

Silver communal bin | Collected at least weekly

Rubbish

Black communal bin | Collected at least weekly

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

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

Recycling

Clear sacks | Collected daily

Rubbish

Black sacks | Collected daily

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

You can recycle...

You can't recycle...

Garden waste

If you have a garden, you can sign up for a free garden waste collection. Green sack. Collected weekly.


Bulky waste

You can book 2 free bulky waste collections per year if you have large items you no longer want.


Useful information

Your local council website

Order new bins

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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