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• Polystyrene • Food waste (except flats*)
• Nappies, tissues and • Garden waste
sanitary products • Batteries
• “Crinkly” plastic films • Electrical items
(e.g. crisp packets and • Textiles
sweet wrappers) • Other recyclable items
• Animal waste • Construction and
• Broken crockery demolition waste
• Other household waste • Commercial waste
that can’t be recycled • Gas bottles/cannisters
*Flats: use your communal
food waste bins if provided
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• Houses and ALWAYS BE TO BUY, CONSUME AND WASTE LESS.
converted flats:
Leave your bag/
bin just inside the COMMON TOWNMEAD BULKY WASTE
front boundary of ITEMS ROAD RE-USE COLLECTION
your property no
later than 6am on TEXTILES – Recycle at your & RECYCLING If you have household
collection day nearest clothes bank or book CENTRE waste that is too big for the
a free collection via bin, like broken furniture
• Flats: Use your TRAID.org.uk/ You can recycle most items or large appliances, we
communal wheeled bins book-a-collection at Townmead Road (off can collect them from you
as required or call 020 8733 2595 Mortlake Road), Kew, (chargeable service).
• Bin bags containing TW9 4EL
SMALL ELECTRICAL
garden waste will not be ITEMS MONDAY: 10am- 5pm*
collected. Please use the Recycle at most local TUESDAY - SATURDAY:
garden waste service. libraries or through our bulky
TIPS
8am- 5pm*
waste collection service
SUNDAY: 9am- 4pm
(chargeable service) • The best way to avoid
*Closing 6pm during British a missed collection is
BATTERIES
TIPS Recycle at battery retailers,
Summer Time. to leave your bag/
bins in the correct
Townmead Road and We operate Sunday opening
• Houses and converted selected local libraries hours on all bank holidays place and be sure to
flats: Buy and use except New Year’s Day, sort your waste and
dustbins or wheelie FURNITURE recycling properly
Christmas Day and Boxing
bins to stop litter and Upcycle with • Need to report a
Day when the site is closed.
scavenging animals richmondfurniturescheme.co.uk missed collection?
• Get tips on reducing richmond.gov.uk/
waste from For more recycling options visit: report_a_missed_
westlondonwaste.gov. richmond.gov.uk/where_to_recycle_your_items collection or call
uk/reduce-waste richmond.gov.uk/bulky_items_and_other_waste_collections 0208 891 1411
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Dry Recycling WEEKLY Food Waste WEEKLY Garden Waste FORTNIGHTLY

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MIXED PAPER • Plastic bags, wrap or • Houses and • Fruit • Food packaging, cling • Houses and • Grass • Soil • Leave your
(blue box): film (recycle suitable converted flats: • Raw and cooked film, plastic bags converted flats: • Leaves • Rubble and stones garden waste
• Paper and card types at supermarkets) Leave your boxes vegetables, meat/fish • Nappies, tissues, Leave your boxes • Cuttings and trimmings • BBQ ash bin/sack just inside
• Cardboard • Clothes or textiles (see just inside the and bones kitchen roll just inside the • Plants and flowers • Animal waste the front entrance
• Envelopes and junk mail back page) front entrance to • Coffee grounds and • Biodegradable front entrance to • Weeds • Plastic bags to your property no
• Cartons (e.g. Tetra • Batteries (see back your property no paper filters containers and your property no • Small branches and • Kitchen waste later than 6am on
Paks) page) later than 6am on • Tea bags coffee pods later than 6am on twigs • Japanese knotweed collection day
• Nappies and tissues collection day • Plate scrapings • Liquids (e.g. milk, collection day • Fallen fruit
MIXED CONTAINERS • Food waste • Egg shells fats and oils) • Garden waste collection
(black box): • Electricals (recycle at • Mixed paper and • Bread and bakery • Use your kitchen food is a chargeable service
• Glass bottles and jars most libraries and with containers for recycling products waste caddy to keep
• Plastic bottles, pots, tubs bulky waste collections) are collected every week food waste separate
and trays • Polystyrene • Flats: Use wheeled TIPS from other waste.
• Cans and tins • Garden waste recycling bins in the • Empty your caddy
• Get a kitchen caddy
• Aerosols (empty) communal grounds contents for collection
free from the Council
• Foil or public recycling into the larger food
or buy your own
bank sites waste box /communal
• Please only use
TIPS • Rinse off any food, newspaper or bin on site (if provided) TIPS
then flatten container biodegradable • Find out more about
and replace lid before food waste trials for flats • Garden waste bins must have a valid
• You can order bags bearing the
recycling visit richmond.gov.uk/ sticker for our crews to collect them
additional boxes and ‘EN13432’ logo to
food_waste_recycling • Pre-paid garden waste sacks are
net box covers from line your caddy, as available for households that only want
the Council they can be recycled garden waste collected occasionally
• If you live in a with your food waste • All contracts run until 31 October
building with eight • Keep the lid of your each year
or more flats, you box in the locked • Home composting is good for
can request a free position to stop the environment and can help
reusable bag for scavenging animals you save money richmond.gov.uk/
storing your recycling accessing the other_ways_to_recycle_garden_waste
in your home contents

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