Recycling in Ealing - an overview

Recycling collections from home

Ealing provide a weekly recycling collection service form home. They will provide you with a green box and collect paper, card, cans, glass, aluminium foil, textiles, shoes, motor oil, household and car batteries on the same day as your refuse collection. Please ensure you box is out for collection by 7am on your collections day.

If you live in a block of flats recycling bins for paper, glass and cans are located in a locked frame located close to your flats making it more convenient for you to recycle.

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

Phone: 020 8825 6000

Email: customers@ealing.gov.uk.

Visit: Recycling in Ealing

Kitchen food waste collections

Ealing offer a kitchen food waste collections service to most residenst eligible for the green box collection service. Ealing provide householders with a green kitchen waste caddy and this will be collected on the same day as your green box and refuse.

You can put the following into your bin:

• cooked and raw food

• meat and fish (including bones)

• vegetable and fruit peelings, egg shells (if you cannot compost at home)

• dairy products (for example cheese and yoghurt)

• tea bags and coffee grounds

• newspaper to wrap food waste

Please DO NOT put these items in your bin:

• pet litter or faeces

• any kind of packaging

• plastic bags

• other general waste

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

Phone: 020 8825 6000

Email: customers@ealing.gov.uk.

Visit: Ealing kitchen food waste collections

Green garden waste collections

If you cannot compost at home Ealing offer a green waste collection service to all its residents. Ealing provide residents with three re-usable sacks to replace the biodegradable pink sacks. Please place your garden waste into open sacks and leave by the edge of your property by 7am on your allocated collection day. All green waste collected is composted.

You can put the following into your sack:

• grass cuttings

• twigs and hedge trimmings

• plants and weeds

• flowers

• leaves

• garden prunings

Please DO NOT put these items in your sack:

• Soil

• plant pots

• stones/rubble

• large tree cuttings

• food scraps

• any other rubbish

To find out more about this service or to book in a collection please:

Phone: 020 8825 6000

Email: customers@ealing.gov.uk.

Visit: Ealing green garden waste collections

Local street recycling banks

Ealing also have a number of street recycling banks for cans, glass, paper and certain types of plastics. Some also take shoes and textiles. To find out where you nearest street recycling bank is and what you can recycle there please visit: Ealing 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. For more information on charges or to book a collection:

Phone: 020 8825 6000

Email: Use the online booking form

Visit: Ealing special collections

Reuse and Recycling Centre

Acton Reuse and Recycling Centre
Stirling Road
W3 8DJ

Southall Reuse and Recycling Centre
Gordon Road
UB2 5QE

Greenford Road Reuse and Recycling Centre
Greenford
Middlesex
UB6 9AP

Opening hours:
Monday to Sunday 8am–5pm (between 1 April-30 September)
Monday to Sunday 8am–4pm (between 1 October-31 March).
Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

Ealing Reuse and Recycling Centre
Visit: Ealing Reuse and Recycling Centre

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 8825 6000

Email: customers@ealing .gov.uk

Website: Recycling in Ealing