Recycling, waste and bin collections

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Let’s Love Newham – Working Together for a Cleaner Borough

Newham Council’s Let’s Love Newham campaign is a borough-wide initiative to create cleaner, safer and more welcoming neighbourhoods for everyone.

We’re asking residents and everyone who visits Newham to join us in tackling fly-tipping, reducing food waste, boosting recycling and keeping our streets clean.

Together, through community action and council services, we can build public spaces we’re proud of and show everyone what it means to truly love where we live.

Get involved today and help make Newham shine. 

Be Bin Day Ready

The way we collect your waste and recycling has changed

Household rubbish and recycling collections

Find out about the different types of waste collections.

Recycling and rubbish collections

Your recycling and rubbish collection days

Bulky household waste collections

Missed rubbish and recycling collections

Timed collections on busy streets

Other waste collections and disposal of unwanted items

Rubbish in front gardens

Household bins

Find information on what to put in each bin type, why we have a one bin rule and order new bins if needed.

Your bins and what goes in each one

Why we have a one bin rule and what it means

Request a new or replacement bin

Commercial waste

Commercial waste and recycling

Commercial waste and recycling FAQs

Using bins or bags

Reuse and recycling

You can recycle more items at our recycling banks and the Jenkins Lane reuse and recycling centre. Find out where they are, and what else can be re-used to reduce waste.

Recycling collections and information

Recycling – what you can put in

Recycling – what you can’t put in

Recycling for flats and estates

Recycling for homes at street level

What happens to recycling?

Recycling banks

Donate your unwanted items

Jenkins Lane re-use and recycling centre

TRAID – Free Home Collection Service for clean, wearable clothes, shoes, accessories, sheets and household linen (excluding duvets and pillows). Find out more.

 

Green and garden waste

Green and garden waste

Composting

Japanese knotweed

Hazardous, dangerous and clinical waste information

Hazardous waste inc. paints, chemicals, pesticides, poisons + more 

Dangerous waste inc. vapes, electrical items, batteries, gas bottles + more 

Clinical household waste collection service

 

TRAID – Free Home Collection Service

We have partnered with second hand fashion charity TRAID, to offer residents a convenient way to donate clothing using TRAID’s free home collection service.

Clothes donated to TRAID go on to be reused and sold in their charity shops, to reduce the environmental and social impacts of our clothes, raising vital funds for global projects to improve conditions and working practices in the textile industry.

Find out more and book a collection from TRAID

Real Nappy Scheme

Newham Real Nappy Scheme

Litter Lotto

Imagine the impact we can make if everyone picked up just one piece of litter or put a drink bottle in the bin during a daily stroll. Our waterways would be cleaner, our neighbourhoods would be even more beautiful, and you could also win regular spot prizes and huge jackpots.

Every month starting from May, only in Newham, we will be running the Litter Lotto and one lucky resident will win £50 for getting their gloves on and picking up one piece of litter during the day.

Download the Litter Lotto app and win cash prizes

Community litter picks

Organise your own community litter pick

Policies and Strategy

Read our Recycling and Waste Collection Policy (PDF)

Recycling, Waste and Street Cleansing Strategy (PDF)

 

Waste collections for new developments

If you are a property developer and you need to set up waste collections for a new development, you need to contact us at least six weeks before the first residents move in. You can find more guidance on how to make the right arrangements for storing and collecting rubbish and recycling when you plan any kind of new development in our planning section.

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