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Flats Recycling

Over 8500 residents in 275 flats and estates in Redbridge now have communal recycling sites, solely for use by residents.

How does the service work?

  1. Please fill your reusable* or carrier bag with the items listed below 
  2. Empty the bag into your paper and mixed recycling bins
  3. Your bins will be emptied every week.
  4. Fill the bag up again and again…!

*You should have received a reusable bag when your recycling bins were installed. If you did not, please contact the recycling team at: recycling@redbridge.gov.uk.

What items can I recycle?

          Mixed bin            Mixed bin           Mixed bin         Paper bin

Recycle mixed glass

Glass bottles

 

Recycle Sign for cans

Food and drink cans

Recycle plastic bottles

Plastic bottles

 

Recycle paper

Newspapers and magazines
Please rinse and remove lids Please rinse tins / cans and ensure aerosols are empty Please wash and squash

 
Yes please

Clear, green and brown glass bottles and jars

Food tins, drinks cans

Plastic fizzy, water, detergent and milk bottles

Newspapers, magazines, junk mail, catalogues, yellow pages
No thanks

Window glass, Drinking glass, Pyrex

Cooking oil containers

Yoghurt pots, plastic trays or pots

Cardboard

UPDATE! We now accept yellow pages

Please ensure that you only place the recyclable materials shown above in your flats recycling bins.

These bins are emptied weekly. The items are then mechanically sorted and made into new items.

All flats that have such recycling facilities are automatically entered into the Flats Recycling League competition.  A prize is awarded every three months to the flats that recycle the most, so make sure you recycle everything you can!

Overflowing bins? Any other queries?

To report an overflowing bin, or for any other queries about the flats recycling bins, please contact the Customer Contact Centre.