Recycling in Wandsworth - an overview

Recycling collections from home

Wandsworth collects recyclables from your home on a weekly basis. They provide residents with orange sacks that are collected on the same day as your normal rubbish collection. You can recycle glass bottles and jars, paper and card, plastic bottles, all drinks cans, food tins, aerosols, and Tetra Pak food and drinks cartons. Please make sure that your recycling sacks are not put on the pavement before 6:30pm on the evening before your collection day.

If you live in a flat and your rubbish is collected in large, wheeled bins, Wandsworth, wherever possible, will provide wheeled recycling banks to enable residents to recycle the same materials for the private use of residents, instead of oranges sacks. For more information to find out when your collections day is:

Phone: 020 8871 8558

Email: wasteservices@wandsworth.gov.uk.

Visit: Recycling in Wandsworth

Kitchen food waste collections

Wandsworth do not currently offer a kitchen waste collection service to its residents. Please contact them directly for further information on when this service might become available.

Green garden waste collections

Residents also have access to a green garden waste collection service. Residents can buy special bio-degradable green waste recycling sacks and the council will collect up to 20 sacks. There is a charge for his service.

You can put the following into your sack:

• Grass cuttings

• Leaves and twigs

• Weeds, plants and flowers

• Hedge trimmings

Please DO NOT put Japanese Knotweed into your green waste recycling sack. This needs to be disposed of separately.

To find out more about these services please:

Phone: 020 8871 8558

Email: wasteservices@wandsworth.gov.uk.

Visit: Wandsworth green garden waste collections

Local street recycling banks

Wandsworth have many street recycling banks located across the borough. At most of these sites you can recycle paper, glass and cans. At some larger sites you can also recycle clothes, shoes, printer cartridges and books with funds raised going to a variety of charities. To find out where you nearest street recycling bank is and what you can recycle there please visit: Wandsworth street recycling banks.

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. There is a charge for collecting these items, by appointment only. For more information or to book a collection:

Phone: 020 8871 8558

Email: wasteservices@wandsworth.gov.uk.

Visit: Wandsworth special collections

Reuse and Recycling Centres

Wandsworth has three Reuse and Recycling Centres:

Smugglers Way
Wandsworth
SW18 1JS

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 9.00am – 4.00pm
Saturday 8.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 8.00am – 5.00pm
Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

Cringle Dock
Cringle Street
Battersea
SW8 5BX

Opening hours
24 hours 7 days a week
Closed midnight Christmas Eve until 6.00am Boxing Day.

Wandsworth Reuse and Recycling Centres
Visit: Wandsworth Reuse and Recycling Centres

Further information

This page is provided for general guidance. To find out exactly what you can recycle where you live please contact your borough or look at its own website for further information:

Phone: 020 8871 8558

Email: wasteservices@wandsworth.gov.uk

Website: Recycling in Wandsworth