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Waltham Forest

Your local recycling rate is...

33%

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

Green wheelie bin or green wheelie bin with blue lid | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black wheelie bin | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small brown caddy

Food and garden waste (outdoors)

Brown wheelie bin | Collected every 2 weeks

Small electricals, batteries and clothes

Separate into plastic bags and place on top of your recycling bin

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

Recycling

Green communal bin with black lid | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Black communal bin | Collected weekly

Food waste recycling

Not always available* | Brown or grey outdoor bin | Collected weekly

*If your flat doesn’t have food waste collections, you can email wasteteam@walthamforest.gov.uk to get these set up

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

Recycling

Green sacks | Collected Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Rubbish

Black sacks | Collected Monday, Wednesday and Friday

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

You can recycle...

Paper

Cardboard

Food and drink cartons

Glass bottles and jars

Tins and cans

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

Plastic bottles

You can't recycle...

PPE

Crisp packets

Plastic film

Polystyrene

Nappies

Bulky waste

You can book a free 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

Gateway Rd, Leyton, London E10 5BY

Or you can visit:
48 Kings Rd, London E4 7HR

42a S Access Rd, Walthamstow, London E17 8AX

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