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:

• Drinks cartons
• Household plastic packaging
• Paper
• Cardboard
• Glass bottles and jars
• Metal tins and cans

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.

Food waste recycling

We are rolling out food waste recycling to 10,000 properties located in estates and blocks.

Residents will be provided with a kitchen caddy and liners to collect food scraps in their kitchen. They can recycle all food raw and cooked including meat and fish (to find out more click onto recycling in the kitchen link on the left side of this page).

Then just tie the liner and pop it into a communal foodwaste container which will be positioned at various locations around the estate. The food waste will be turned into compost at the Ecopark Composting facility in Edmonton.

If you would like your estate or block to be considered for this scheme contact Marlene Vella on 0207 527 6728 or email marlene.vella@islington.gov.uk