Recycling in Kingston upon Thames - an overview

Recycling collections from home

Kingston collects recycleables from your home on a weekly basis. Residents are provided with a green box and you can recycle paper, card, glass bottles and jars, cans, plastic bottles, textiles, shoes and now you can recycle telephone directories, household batteries and liquid food and drinks cartons. You can recycle flattened card by requesting a white storage bag from Kingston who will collect it weekly.

If you live in a flat on an estate you may still be able to recycle. Kingston provide orange sacks for you to recycle paper, glass bottles and jars, cans and plastic bottles.

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

Phone: 020 8547 5560

Email: recycling@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

Visit: Recycling in Kingston upon Thames

Kitchen food waste collections

If you live in a street property, food waste is collected from your doorstep. This scheme turns your food waste into compost. Two containers are provided to residents receiving this service, a small kitchen caddie, which can be stored in your kitchen and a brown kerbside container with a self-locking lid for storgae outside.

Cooked and uncooked food can be recycled in your brown kerbside food container including:

• Meat and fish scraps

• Fruit and vegetable peelings

• Eggs and egg shells

• Diary products

• Cut flowers

• Tea bags and coffee grinds

You cannot use the food waste bin for:

• Cooking oil

• Large bones or carcasses e.g. whole chickens

• Packaging

• Plastic Bags

• Garden waste

This is collected weekly on the same day as your recycling collection. When ready for collection, please leave your brown kerbside container with the handle upright as this locks the bin. For further information and to find out when your collection day is:

Phone: 020 8547 5560

Email: recycling@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

Visit: Recycling in Kingston upon Thames

Green garden waste collections

If you cannot compost at home Kingston have recently launched their new green garden waste collection service. Residents can now choose from three levels of service as follows:

• Green wheelie bin, collected weekly

• Green wheelie bin, collected fortnightly

• Ten biodgradable bags collected by appointment

Please note there is a cost attached to all these services. Please contact Kingston directly to find out up to date costs.

You can put the following into your sack:

• Grass cuttings

• Old garden or house plants

• Twigs

• Hedge trimmings

• Flowers and weeds

• Leaves

• Garden prunings

Please DO NOT put these items in your sack:

• Plastic pots, trays or bags

• Soil, rocks and stones

• Wire ties

• Branches

• Tree trunks, stumps or logs

• Vegetable peelings or other food waste

For further information, to join ther scheme or to book a collection:

Phone: 020 8547 5560

Email: recycling@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

Visit: Kingston green garden waste collections

Local street recycling banks

Kingston also have a number of street recycling banks for paper, cardboard, cans and tins, glass bottles and jars, clothes and textiles. To find out where you nearest street recycling bank is and what you can recycle there please visit: Kingston 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 this service. For more information or to book a collection:

Phone: 020 8547 5560

Email: recycling@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

Visit: Kingston special collections

Reuse and Recycling Centre

Villiers Road Recycling Centre
Kingston-Upon-Thames
KT1 3BE

Opening hours

March to October
Monday to Friday – 7.30am – 7.00pm
Saturday & Public Holidays - 7.30am – 4.00pm
Sundays 9.00am – 4.00pm

October to March
Monday to Friday – 7.30am – 4.30pm
Saturday & Public Holidays - 7.30am – 4.00pm
Sundays 9.00am – 1.00pm

Kingston Reuse and Recycling Centre
Visit: Kingston 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 7527 2000

Email: recycling@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

Visit: Recycling in Kingston upon Thames