Recycling in Merton - an overview

Recycling collections from home

Merton collects recycling from your home on a weekly basis on the same day as your normal refuse collection. Merton provides residents with green and/or purple boxes for recycling paper, card, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, cans and food and drink cartons. You can now put any material in any container and they will be all collected together and then sorted into specific materials to be sent for reprocessing.

Blocks of flats with ten or more flats have been provided with a set of communal recycling bins where can place all your recycling paper, card, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, cans and food and drink cartons. All bins are emptied weekly

If you live in a flat above a shop or your property has no outside space Merton will provide you with Purple bags for all your recycling and Blue bags for your rubbish. Please check Merton’s website to find out if you are on this scheme.

For further information and to find out when your collection day is:

Phone: 020 8274 4902

Email: Use the esenquiries@merton.gov.uk

Visit: Recycling in Merton

Food waste collections

Merton provides a food Waste collection to 10,000 of its residents and is hoping to extend it to more residents in the future. If you want to find out more about the service or whether you are part of the scheme, please visit Merton’s website.

Green garden waste collections

All Merton residents have access to a free green garden waste collection service. Your green garden waste must be put into special clear sacks. Merton provide residents with two free reusable clear sacks (more can be purchased for £1 each) from libraries throughout the borough and you can recycle up to five sacks at a time. Book a collection either by calling Merton’s Waste Helpline or online through Merton’s website. Place your garden waste into the sacks and leave by the edge of your property by 6am on your allocated collection day. All green waste collected is composted.

You can put the following into your sack:

• grass cuttings

• hedge prunings

• twigs

• leaves and seasonal garden fruit (but not fruit scraps from the kitchen)

Please DO NOT put these items in your sack:

• Food waste

• Large tree branches or timber

• Soil

• Bricks or rubble

• Plastic plant pots or bags

• All other waste

For further information about this service or to book an appointment please:

Phone: 020 8274 4902

Email: Use the esenquiries@merton.gov.uk

Visit: Merton green garden waste collections

Local street recycling banks

Merton also has a number of street recycling banks for paper, card, glass, cans, plastic bottles and cartons. Some also take textiles, books, CD’s and DVD’s. To find out where you nearest street recycling bank is and what you can recycle there please visit Merton street recycling banks. There are also a number of Recycle on the Go bins around Merton enabling our residents to recycle even more.

Special collections

If you have a piece of furniture, a fridge, cooker or similar item which is still in good condition check out the Reuse page to see if someone else can give it a home. Alternatively the Council can collect it for you. This service is by appointment only and there is a charge for collecting these items. For more information or to book a collection:

Phone: 020 8274 4902

Email: Use the esenquiries@merton.gov.uk

Visit: Merton special collections

Reuse and Recycling Centre

63-69 Amenity Way, off Garth Road
Morden
SM4 4AX

Opening times

Monday to Sunday, 8.00am – 4.00pm
Closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.

For residents in vans and with trailers, there will be no access into the centres:

• from 1pm on Saturdays

• all day on Sundays

• all Bank Holidays

If you are a resident with a van or trailer there is a restriction of up to 250kgs of waste brought inevery 6 months, and a charge will be made to dispose of any waste in excess of this limit.

You must bring proof of your Merton residency.

Reuse and Recycling Centre

36 Weir Road
SW19 8UG
Wimbledon

Opening times
Monday 12.00 noon - 7.00pm
Tuesday – Thursday - CLOSED
Friday - Sunday – 8.00am – 4.00pm
Bank Holidays – 8.00am – 4.00pm
Closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.

No general waste is accepted at this site – recycling only.

You must bring proof of your Merton residency.

Merton Reuse and Recycling Centres
Visit: Merton Reuse and Recycling Centres