Recycling on Estates

Islington Council provides weekly doorstep recycling collections for estate residents at 25,000 properties throughout the borough. Estate residents in Islington are currently recycling the equivalent weight of twenty-two double decker buses a month!

Collection times

Please place your container outside your front door before 8am on your collection day.

Replacement Bags, Missed Collections and Further Information

Please contact us using via General Enquiries link on the right of this page for replacement bags or boxes, information flyers about the service or to report missed collections or problems.

Estates' bring sites

There are also over 250 estates with recycling banks. These are generally large mixed recycling bins, suitable for putting loose, unsorted recyclable materials in.

You can put the following materials in the banks:

• paper and cardboard

• glass bottles and jars

• plastic bottles

• metal tins, cans, foil and aerosols

Chute recycling on estates

Islington Council is working hard to make recycling as easy as possible for everyone. As part of this work, six estates are now receiving a chute recycling scheme following successful recycling trials in the EC1 New Deal for Communities area. On each of the estates, chutes are being converted so that residents can use one chute to recycle and another chute to dispose of their refuse.

The chute hatches are painted and clearly marked for recycling, and signs advise residents which chute to use for recycling and which chute to use for refuse.

At present, the chute recycling scheme is operating at:
• Rahere House
• President House
• Turnpike House
• Grayson House
• Galway House
• Gastigny House
• Lagonier House
• Anchor House*
* At Anchor House, we are piloting a different type of chute recycling scheme where one chute can be used for both refuse and recycling.