Your recycling
Your recycling service
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Find your waste and recycling services
View your recycling and rubbish services – information leaflet (PDF 914kb)
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You can:
- only order food waste liners if you have a communal food waste service
- collect green recycling sacks from Hackney Central Library between 10am to 12pm, every second Friday of the month
Find out if you can recycle it
You can recycle:
- glass bottles and jars
- plastic bottles
- plastic pots and trays
- paper and card
- aluminium cans, tins and aerosols
- foil and foil trays
- egg cartons
Public recycling banks
There are over 70 public recycling banks and bins in Hackney. They are available for use by all residents, and are emptied weekly. They must not be used for commercial or business waste.
Items recyclable at public recycling banks
Items recyclable elsewhere
Reuse and Recycling Centres (tips or dumps)
See Reuse and Recycling Centres (tips or dumps)
Reuse, repair or donate unwanted items
Consider if an item can be reused, repaired or donated before putting it in the bin.
Items that go in the black bin
See items that go in the black bin
What happens to your recycling
All recycling from households in Hackney is sorted in North London at Biffa’s materials recycling facility (MRF) in Edmonton, Enfield.
The sorted material is then sent to reprocessors in the UK and abroad who make it into new products.
Learn more about where your recycling goes on the North London Waste Authority website.
Recycling tips
Most waste is recyclable. If you use your green bags properly you’re likely to have very little waste left over. Line your main kitchen bin with a green recycling sack.
You can then take the green sack out on collection day. You could use a smaller bin for non-recyclable waste. Store it somewhere else in your home or put it straight into any outdoor containers or bins.
You may want to use a bin to store full green recycling bags during the week. If you do this ensure green bags are taken out of the bin in time on the morning of your collection.
Wash and squash all recyclable materials – they take up less space and do not encourage foxes.
Hackney Recycling
Address
Telephone
Opening times
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday – 9am to 5pm (telephone)
- Wednesday – 9am to 4pm (telephone)