A
- Aerosols, including deodorant and body spray, hairspray, air freshener and polish - not accepted for recycling
- Aluminium cans - green recycling wheelie bin or find your local recycling point on the Recycle Now website.
- Aluminium foil and lids: reuse and recycling centre
- Anti-freeze - hazardous waste
- Appliances (electrical and electronic equipment)
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Asbestos - hazardous waste
B
- Baking tray / tin - reuse and recycling centre
- Batteries - to all shops that currently sell them
- Regular batteries: if you have a property with a recycling wheelie bin, please place your regular batteries in a loosely tied bag on top of the bins. If you have a communal recycling bin, please take your batteries back to the seller or manufacturer.
- E-scooter/e-bike batteries: these are not accepted at our Reuse and Recycling Centres. Please either return to manufacturer or seller, or drop it off at one of the following locations:
- Halfords (Brixton) - Unit B Effra Rd, Brixton, SW2 1BZ
- Evans Cycles (Clapham) - Unit 2, 65 Clapham High St, London SW4 7TG (limited space)
- Decathlon (Surrey Quays) - 9 Maritime Street, London, SE16 7FU
- Bicycles - reuse and recycling centre
- Board games - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Books - reuse and recycling centre
- Boots - local recycling point on the Recycle Now website or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Bottles and jars - green recycling wheelie bin or local recycling point on the Recycle Now website.
- Bread wrappers/bags - check local supermarket for collection point
- Bric-a-brac - donate unwanted goods to Emmaus Lambeth
- Bricks - Smugglers Way or a salvage yard if in good condition
- Brushes, rollers and mops - Smugglers Way
- Building material - Smugglers Way, bulky waste or a salvage yard if in good condition
- Bubble wrap - cannot be recycled but it can be reused
- Buttons - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
C
- Cans (food and drink cans) - green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Car batteries - reuse and recycling centre
- Carbon monoxide monitor - see electrical items
- Cardboard - green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Carpets and rugs - bulky waste collection
- Cartons (Tetrapaks) including UHT, soya and goat's milk, fruit juice and sauces - green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Carrier bags - many supermarkets now have recycling points for carrier bags
- Cassettes - not currently recyclable in Lambeth
- Catalogues - green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Cat litter
- litter and waste from non-carnivorous animals can be composted
- if your cat eats meat, their waste should be wrapped and disposed of in the general rubbish bin
- CDs - reuse and recycling centre and find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Chipboard - reuse and recycling centre
- Children’s toys - reuse and recycling centre
- Christmas and birthday cards
- green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- put them in your rubbish bin if they have foil or plastic on
- Christmas trees - collected during January
- Clingfilm - cannot be recycled
- Clocks and watches - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Clothing, textiles and shoes - reuse and recycling centre or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Coat hangers - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Coffee grounds - composted, or the food waste collection service
- Cooking pans, trays and utensils - reuse and recycling centre
- Cooking oil - reuse and recycling centre
- Computers and PCs - reuse and recycling centre or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Cookers - reuse and recycling centre
- Crockery and cutlery - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Crisp packets - cannot be recycled
- Curtains - reuse and recycling centre or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
D
- Directories - green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Dishwashers - reuse and recycling centre
- Disposable nappies - cannot be recycled
- try reusable nappies
- DIY waste - Smugglers Way
- Domestic appliances
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Drinks cans - green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- Drinks cartons – green recycling wheelie bin or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
- DVDs - reuse and recycling centre or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- DVD players
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
E
- Egg boxes (plastic and cardboard) - green recycling wheelie bin, find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website or composted
- Egg shells - food waste collection service or composted
- Electrical goods
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Energy saving light bulbs - reuse and recycling centre
- Engine oil - reuse and recycling centre
- Envelopes - green recycling wheelie bin, or find local recycling points on the street and in retailers on the Recycle Now website.
F
- Fat/oil for cooking – food waste collection service or composting
- Flowers and plants - composting
- Foil - kitchen and aluminium - reuse and recycling centre
- Food waste - food waste collection service or composted
- Fridges and freezers: find your local recycling point on the Recycle Now website or bulky waste collection service
- Frozen food bags - check local supermarket for collection point
- Furniture - reuse and recycling centre or bulky waste collection service
G
- Garden chemicals – see hazardous household waste
- Garden tools - unwanted or broken garden hand tools can be taken to Lambeth reuse and recycling centre or The Remakery
- Garden waste - see garden waste collection service, composting or reuse and recycling centre
- Gift wrap – if paper, green recycling wheelie bin
- Glasses and spectacles - see reuse and recycling centre
- Glass bottles and jars:
- Glass bottles from health and medical products - clear sacks or shared green recycling bin
- Glass baby food jars - green recycling wheelie bin
- Glass coffee jars - green recycling wheelie bin
- Glass malted drink or other bevarage jars - green recycling wheelie bin
- Glass spice and herb jars - green recycling wheelie bin
- Glasses (drinking glasses) - cannot be recycled, if reusable, donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Glue – cannot be recycled
- Grass cuttings – see garden waste or composting
- Guttering - reuse and recycling centre
H
- Hairdryers
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Healthcare waste - see healthcare waste
I
- Irons
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
J
- Jewellery - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Jiffy bags - not recyclable but please reuse
- Junk mail - green recycling wheelie bin
K
- Kitchen waste – see food waste or home composting
- Kitchen roll tubes – green recycling wheelie bin
- Kitchen roll/ tissue - cannot be recycled
L
- Lamps
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Leaflets – see paper and card
- Leaves – see garden waste and composting
- Light bulbs: find your local recycling point on the Recycle Now website
M
- Magazines – green recycling wheelie bin
- Margarine tubs – green recycling wheelie bin
- Mattresses - not currently recyclable
- Medicine - return unwanted or out-of-date medicine to your nearest pharmacy for safe disposal
- MDF – reuse and recycling centre
- Microwaves
- take to one of the recycling centres at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- if in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- Mirrors – see glass
- Mobile phones - find your local recycling point on the Recycle Now website or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Milk bottles (plastic and glass) - green recycling wheelie bin
- Musical instruments - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
N
- Nappies - disposable nappies cannot be recycled
- find out about reusable nappies
- Needles – see healthcare waste
- Newspapers – green recycling wheelie bin
O
- Oil (cooking oil or engine oil) - reuse and recycling centre
P
- Packaging - see material type, for example, cardboard or plastic
- Paint - try to use up all paint:
- you can dispose of unused paint at Smuggler's Way recycling centre
- let the paint dry as much as possible by leaving the lid off before bringing it to a recycling centre
- water-based paint should be put in the rubbish only containers
- oil-based paint should be put in the oil based paint container in Bay A
- only household paint containers up to 5 litres will be accepted
- empty paint cans can be recycled in the scrap metal container
- dried solid paint can be put in your general waste bin
- Pans - donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Paper - green recycling wheelie bin
- Paper, shredded - cannot be recycled
- Pesticides - see hazardous waste
- Pet litter
- litter and waste from non-carnivorous animals can be composted
- if your animal eats meat, their waste should be wrapped and disposed of in the general rubbish bin
- Phone directories - green recycling wheelie bin
- Pillows - not currently recyclable
- Pill trays with foil - not currently recyclable
- Plant pots and seed trays - not currently recyclable
- Plants - see garden waste
- Plasterboard - not currently recyclable
- you need to contact a specialist company to dispose of this
- Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays - the following items can be recycled in your green recycling wheelie bin:
- Plastic bottles including drinks and detergents
- Plastic bakery trays
- Plastic cake decoration pots
- Plastic dessert pots
- Plastic egg boxes
- Plastic fruit punnets
- Plastic handsoap dispensers
- Plastic ice cream tubs
- Plastic margarine tubs
- Plastic ready meal trays
- Plastic sauce pots
- Plastic spray bottles from detergent and cleaning products
- Plastic tubs from laundry capsules
- Plastic tubs from personal care products (for example creams and hair gels)
- Plastic yoghurt pots (rinse and remove foil lids)
- Pot noodle pots
- Plastic vitamin and supplement pots
- Plastics - the following items cannot be recycled in your green recycling wheelie bin:
- Carrier bags
- Buckets
- Pipes
- Toys (see reuse and recycling centres or donate to Emmaus Lambeth)
- Polystyrene packaging
- Clingfilm
- Inner wrap from cereals
- Bread wrappers
- Frozen food bags
- Plant pots
- Bubble wrap
- Crisp packets and sweet bags
- Electrical items
- Pill trays with foil
- Food sachets (like powdered sauces)
- Toothpaste tubes
- Plastic carrier bags – see carrier bags
- Plastic chairs – see reuse and recycling centres
- Plastic toys – see reuse and recycling centres or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Polystyrene – not currently recyclable
- Pots and pans – donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Prams and pushchairs – donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Printer cartridges – reuse and reycling centre
- Pyrex glass including jugs and cooking dishes - not recyclable so donate to Emmaus Lambeth
Q
- Quilts – not currently recyclable
R
- Radiators – reuse and recycling centre
- Radios
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Records, audio tapes, CDs – donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Refrigerators – reuse and recycling centre
S
- Sanitary products - not currently recyclable
- there are reusable alternatives available in your local health food store or online
- Scrap metal – reuse and recycling centre
- Sewing machines – reuse and recycling centre
- Shoes – find your local recycling point on the Recycle Now website, reuse and recycling centre, or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Small electrical appliances
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Sofas – reuse and recycling centres, or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Soil - reuse it or offer it to someone who can
- excess soil is too heavy to be emptied from a rubbish wheelie bin and not considered household waste
- you will need to contact a specialist company to dispose of this
- Spectacles – take to an opticians
- Stamps – you may be able to donate them to charity
- Steel cans – see green recycling wheelie bin
T
- Takeaway food containers:
- plastic – green recycling wheelie bin
- foil - Lambeth Reuse and Recycling Centre
- Tea bags –food waste collection service or composting
- Television sets – reuse and recycling centres or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Tetrapaks – green recycling wheelie bin
- Textiles – find your local recycling point on the Recycle Now website, reuse and recycling centres, or donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Timber – reuse and recycling centres
- Tins – from food and drink see green recycling wheelie bin including:
- infant milk and formula tins
- baby food tins
- pet food tins
- Tissue/toilet roll - cannot be recycled
- Toilet and kitchen roll tubes – green recycling wheelie bin
- Tools – garden hand tools can be taken to Lambeth reuse and recycling centre or The Remakery
- Toothpaste tubes – not currently recyclable
- Towels – see textiles, clothing and shoes
- Trees – see garden waste
- Toys and games – donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Tyres – not currently recyclable
V
- Vacuum Cleaners – reuse and recycling centres
- Vapes
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service”
- Vegetable peelings – see food waste collection service or home composting
- Video recorders
- take to one of the recycling centres at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- if in working condition, take to a local charity shop
W
- Washing machines – see reuse and recycling centres or bulky waste collection
- Watches - if in working order, donate to Emmaus Lambeth
- Water butts – reuse and recycling centre
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Take to your local reuse and recycling centre at Vale Street or Smuggler's Way
- If in working condition, take to a local charity shop
- If you live in a property with a wheelie bin, make use of our small electrical collection service
- Weeds – see garden waste or home composting
- Wellington boots: find your local recycling point on the Recycle Now website.
- Window glass – see Lambeth reuse and recycling centre
- Wood – reuse and recycling centres
Y
- Yellow pages – green recycling wheelie bin
- Yoghurt pots – green recycling wheelie bin