Recycling in Westminster - an overview

Recycling collections from home

Westminster offer a variety of recycling collection schemes depending on where you live.

Doorstep recycling

They provide residents with a blue recycling bag or black basket. Recycling is collected weekly and you can recycle paper, cardboard, cans, glass bottles/jars and plastic bottles.

Recycling on estates

All estates now have a mixed recycling bin, making it easier for you to recycle your paper, cardboard, cans, glass bottles/jars and plastic bottles. Please contact your estate office for more information.

Recycling in mansion blocks

All mansion blocks now have a collection of mixed paper and card, mixed glass, plastic bottles, food tins and drink cans either using blue bags or communal bins.

For further information or to find out when your colelction day is please:

Phone: 020 7641 2000

Email: recycling@westminster.gov.uk.

Visit: Recycling in Westminster

Kitchen food waste collections

Westminster 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

Westminster offer a free green garden waste recycling scheme for all residents. They provide reusable bags and collect throughout the year on an alternate weekly basis.

You can put the following into your sack:

• prunings, twigs (under 30mm thick) and leaves

• old flowers and houseplants

• weeds

• grass cuttings

• thin logs and branches (under 30mm thick)

Please DO NOT put these items in your green waste sacks

• thick logs and branches (over 30mm thick)

• soil and turf

• any food waste

• any other rubbish

To ensure that your green waste is collected, make sure your bags are on the edge of your property by 8am on your collection day.

To find out more about these services please:

Phone: 020 7641 2000

Email: recycling@westminster.gov.uk.

Visit: Westminster green garden waste collections

Local street recycling banks

Westminster has 170 street recycling sites across the borough for you to recycle paper, card, plastic bottles, glass, cans and tins. They also have 24 sites for recycling textiles and clothes, 13 sites for the recycling of Tetrapak cartons and 5 sites for recycling small electrical waste. Residents can also recycle small batteries at all libraries and one stop shops. To find out where you nearest street recycling site is and what you can recycle there please visit: Westminster 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. Westminster can provide a collection for up to 10 items for £20. For more information:

Phone: 020 7641 2000

Email: recycling@westminster.gov.uk.

Visit: Westminster special collections

Reuse and Recycling Centres

There are no Reuse and Recycling Centres (RRC) in Westminster. Residents can use Western Riverside Waste Authority's RRC's located in Wandsworth. Please see Wandsworth’s recycling page for further information.

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 7641 2000

Email: recycling@westminster.gov.uk.

Visit: Recycling in Westminster