We are committed to Recycling for All, our strategy for increasing recycling opportunities for residents. As part of this, we provide a fortnightly recycling collection service for all households, including flats. We also carry out a number of recycling trials, and we will contact you directly if these affect you. Information on our latest trial, Composting for All.
Recycling should be put out for collection by 7am on your collection day at the edge of your property, within arm's length of the pavement, if you live in a house. Flats generally have a shared area for recycling bins, normally near the refuse bins. Please contact us if your recycling collection is missed, or you need a new recycling box.
Details
For houses, we provide black boxes to recycle paper and card, and green boxes to recycle glass, plastic bottles, tins and cans and aluminium foil. Flats are provided with bulk recycling bins, generally in the communal bin area. At present, we can only collect paper and glass from flats, but we plan to extend the service to include plastic bottles and cans very shortly, and will ensure that you are informed when this service improvement is in place.
Items that can be recycled in your black boxes are:
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Catalogues
- Phone books
- Cardboard (flattened)
- Pizza boxes
- Cardboard tubes (e.g. toilet roll)
- Cards (birthday, Christmas)
- Cereal boxes
- Detergent and washing powder boxes
- Egg cartons
- Envelopes and junk mail
- Kitchen roll
- Paper bags
- Paper plates (unsoiled)
- Shredded paper
We cannot accept hardback books, drinks and milk cartons or large cardboard boxes.
Items that can be recycled in your green boxes are:
- Milk bottles
- Drink bottles
- Detergent bottles
- Drink cans
- Food tins
- Aerosol cans
- Glass bottles (all colours)
- Glass jars (all colours)
- Plastic bottles
- Aluminium foil
We cannot accept plastic dishes and packaging, yoghurt pots, plastic bags, other metal, Pyrex, drinking glasses, crockery, and broken or window glass.
We can only recycle plastic bottles at present; this is because there are very limited opportunities for recycling certain types of plastics. However, we are always researching new markets for recycling, so the range of products that we can recycle is expanding all the time. We will let you know when we can recycle more.
Please note that, as part of our commitment to the environment, we will take measures against residents who persistently refuse to use our recycling service. If households persistently and deliberately fail to recycle, ultimately we won’t collect their un-separated waste and householders could face fines or even prosecution under the Environmental Protection Act (1990).
Contacts
Telephone: 020 8313 4557
E-mail: csc@bromley.gov.uk
Address: Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley, BR1 3UH.
Office hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:30pm