Recycling, rubbish and waste news

• Don’t leave donations outside closed charity shops

  Published on Wednesday, 7 October 2020

  Residents and others are being asked not to leave their donations of unwanted goods outside closed charity shops.

• Household recycling sites reorganised to give more appointments

  Published on Friday, 10 July 2020

  Changes to the government’s social distancing rules have enabled capacity and increased appointments at both the household waste and recycling centres. Both the Waldo Road and the Churchfields Road sites are being re-organised accordingly. The sites will still see cleaning of surfaces and social distancing reminders for residents’ well-being.

• Temporary re-opening of green garden waste sites at weekends in May

  Published on Monday, 4 May 2020

  The council is pleased to advise residents that a limited number of green garden waste sites will be open for the remaining weekends in May.

• Large style containers improve efficiency and help congestion

  Published on Friday, 21 June 2019

  To help ease queuing times and the associated congestion, larger waste containers have been installed at Waldo Road reuse and recycling centre.

• Waste collection day changes will help improve the service

  Published on Wednesday, 19 June 2019

  Changes to waste collection days to deliver greater efficiency and reliability of the service alongside an improved recycling service will go ahead this autumn.

• Environment contracts awarded

  Published on Wednesday, 13 March 2019

  A series of essential environment focussed contracts delivering frontline services have been agreed for an initial eight year period, with the agreements being the largest value contract ever awarded by the council.

• Food for Thought - disposing of food waste each week is best

  Published on Tuesday, 27 November 2018

  Residents are being encouraged to use the council’s weekly food waste collection service as the easiest and most efficient way to dispose of unwanted food waste.

• Rubbish removal begins at Waste4Fuel site

  Published on Tuesday, 1 November 2016

  The first truck containing approximately 15 tonnes of waste left the former Waste4Fuel site in St Mary Cray today.

• Waste4fuel land deal complete

  Published on Monday, 19 September 2016

  A land deal which will finally allow work to remove the rubbish mountain on the former Waste4fuel site in Orpington to begin, has now been successfully completed.

• Waste4fuel land deal approved by the Executive

  Published on Friday, 2 September 2016

  Clearance of the rubbish mountain on the former Waste4fuel site in Orpington moved a step closer today as the council’s Executive formally agreed a land deal.

• Waste4fuel land deal breakthrough

  Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016

  A land deal has been agreed in principle which will finally enable clearance of the rubbish mountain on the former Waste4fuel site in Orpington to begin.