Recycling Collection Services

Recycling Services

Why recycle?

Recycling gives things a future. Making new products from waste means we don't have to bury or burn it. This saves energy and resources, which is good for the economy and the environment.

As recycling costs less than disposing of waste, recycling more helps to keep council tax low. If people in Wandsworth suddenly stopped recycling the council's waste disposal costs would increase by over £1.5m every year. And every additional tonne you recycle currently saves another £58.50.

Orange recycling collection services

You can recycle the following materials using your orange recycling service:

Paper
Card
Glass
Cans
Food/drinks cartons
Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays
Aerosols

Full details of what to include in orange recycling sacks and banks.

If your rubbish is collected in ordinary dustbins or refuse sacks, please recycle all you can using the o Recycling bank range sack collection service.

If your rubbish is collected in large communal wheeled bins, please recycle all you can using the orange-lidded banks near your home. If there isn't one but you think there is suitable space, please email wasteservices@wandsworth.gov.uk. We will then try to get one installed.

Other recycling services

Public recycling banks (find your nearest)
Household Waste and Recycling Centres (tips/dumps)
Commercial recycling services

Did you know?

Wandsworth now sends zero waste direct to landfill. Instead, residual rubbish is now delivered to a new energy-from waste incinerator in Belvedere, Bexley where it helps to generate electricity for the National Grid. This enables metals and aggregates to be recovered from the incinerated ashes, increasing Wandsworth's recycling rate in 2011/12 from 28.5% to 45.9%! More information about waste disposal and recycling performance.