Recycling collection

Door-step recycling collections 

We offer all residents who live in a house or a flat with less than six flats to one front door a recycling collection service.

What day is my recycling collected

Find out when your recycling is collected

How do I get a recycling box or bag?

You can request for a recycling box online

Where and when do I put out my recycling box/bag?

Please place your box or bag outside your property where it can be easily seen from the road, but not on the public footpath. Your box or bag needs to be out for collection before 7am. You can place it out the night before.

Please note that times of collection may vary. We will inform you of bank holiday arrangements

If you have difficulty lifting and require assistance please contact street environment services

The new face of Camden recycling

A new weekly food and garden waste recycling collection service has now been introduced to help you recycle even more.

What has changed and why?

We recently delivered you a new recycling kit so you can recycle all your food and garden waste, which will be turned into compost instead of ending up in landfill. Your kit contained a brown and green caddy for your food waste and a white sack for your garden waste.

We also delivered you a blue bag for all your paper and card recycling.  Your paper and card will need to be separated from the rest of your recycling in the green bag or box. This will help to ensure a better quality material for reprocessing.

The rest of your green box/bag recycling services will remain the same.

To find out more visit The new face of Camden recycling

What can I put in my green box or bag?

Plastics

• yoghurt pots
• food trays
• fruit punnets
• ice cream tubs
• margarine containers
• wax-lined, poly-lined and foil-lined cartons (e.g. milk cartons, Tetra Pak)
• water and fizzy drink bottles
• cooking oil and milk bottles
• Shampoo, bath and shower bottles
• household cleaning, washing and fabric conditioner bottles
• all bottle caps
• plastic bags (empty)
• magazine wrappings. 

No thanks...

• foil-lined packets/sweet wrappers and crisp packets
• black sacks
• bio-degradable and degradable bags
• polystyrene packing or beads
• tupperware containers
• plastic furniture
• liquid waste
• food waste

Metals - tins and cans

• drink and food cans (rinsed)
• aerosol cans (fully emptied)
• aluminium foil (clean and dry)
• metal screw tops and jar lids.

No thanks...

• Paint tins and any other metals

Mixed glass - all colours

• drinks bottles
• food/spice jars
• jam/spread jars
• sauce bottles

No thanks…

• pane or toughened glass
• mirrors/broken glass
• light bulbs/fluorescent tubes
• crockery
• pyrex
• broken drinking glasses

Note:  Please place all items in your box or bag loose and not in plastic bags

Missed collection

You can report a missed recycling collection online

What happens to my recycling after it’s collected?

Please see what happens to my recycling after it's collected?

Recycling in communal buildings

If you live in a multi-occupancy building (with more than six homes) we are currently looking at setting up near-door recycling banks for you to use.

We are currently looking at ways to make recycling easier in communal buildings, so you can recycle more. Visit our communal recycling pages to find out more

Contact

For more information please contact street environment services

Page last updated Sep 9, 2011 12:07 PM