Below are just some of the items you're able to recycle in Southwark either at a local recycling centre or by using your blue bin or box, clear bag collection or communal bins if you live in a flat.
Please ensure you only include items which are listed. You can now include food and drink cartons, for example Tetra Paks.
The A to Z of waste and recycling includes a more extensive list of items that can be recycled in the borough, either at the recycling and reuse centre, the new mobile recycling centre or through a local organisation.
Glass
- Glass bottles - any colour
- Glass jars - any colour
Metals
- Drink cans and food tins - please empty, rinse and squash
- Biscuit, cake and sweet tins
- Metal lids (from glass bottles and jars)
- Aluminum foil (clean only)
- Aerosol spray cans - do not puncture or squash
Please remove lids, tops, caps and corks and rinse out any remaining food.
Plastics
- Plastic drinks bottles
- Plastic household bottles, e.g. shampoo and detergent bottles
- Plastic food trays, tubs, pots, lids and tops
Paper
- Paper
- Newspapers and magazines
- Catalogues and brochures
- Junk mail, flyers and leaflets
- Envelopes (please remove the plastic windows)
- Phone directories, including the Yellow Pages
- Shredded paper (please put in a used paper envelope or paper bag)
- Greeting cards
- Food packets (like cereal boxes)
- Cardboard (please remove any plastics from boxes, break down cardboard, and flatten)
- Egg boxes
- Detergent and washing powder boxes
- Tissue boxes
- Toilet roll tubes and kitchen roll tubes
Cartons
- Food and drink cartons such as Tetra Pak.
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