Did you receive the Christmas recycling pack? Please complete our online survey for a chance to win a £50 eco-voucher. The draw will be made on 1st March 2010. It will only take one minute to complete.
Simply click on the recycling pack survey link on the right side of this page.
Islington Council, in partnership with Enterprise, is launching a new recycling service for businesses. The new service will collect a wider range of materials including glass, plastic packaging, paper, cardboard and tins. We are also extending our business food waste collection scheme across the borough.
The materials will be collected alongside normal waste in new three compartment vehicles fuelled by bio-diesel which has been recovered and refined from cooking oil collected from local restaurants. The new vehicles will help improve Islington's environment because it will reduce the time that waste is placed out for collection and also the number of vehicles needed to collect the waste and recycling.
This will also help reduce the cost to participating businesses by providing a more effective service whilst delivering an environmentally sustainable model for the future.
For further information please contact Enterprise on 0845 226 5101 or email commercialwaste.islington@enterprise.plc.uk
Well done to all of you who entered the Love Food Hate Waste recipe competition. Have a look at the winning recipes by clicking onto the Love Food Hate Waste link on the right side of this page
Islington Council’s comprehensive package of waste minimisation initiatives received national recognition recently when we picked up two awards for our work to cut waste in the borough.
Islington won the “Best Local Authority Recycling Initiative” award at the LetsRecycle.com Awards for our work that led to a 9% cut in the amount of waste produced in the borough in 2008-09 compared to the year before. We also picked up a special prize at the VALPAK Awards for Excellence in Waste Management for our “Consistent Commitment to Developing Environmental Awareness & Sustainability”.
Clearly this kind of progress wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts of local residents, so we'd like to say a big thank you to all of you who have played your part in cutting the amount of waste that ends up going into landfill.
If you want to find out more about how we can help you cut your waste, visit the Reduce and Reuse section of our website.
We've launched a Facebook group called "Recycling Islington" to help keep you updated about new services, events and campaigns in the borough. You'll also be able to share tips and ideas with other local residents to on how to cut waste and recycle more. If you're on Facebook, simply click on Recycling Islington to join us!
Good news – you can now place drinks cartons and household plastic packaging (such as yoghurt pots and fruit punnets) out for recycling, in addition to all your other recyclables. This means that there will be practically no materials left for you to throw out! You can now recycle:
This has been made possible as we will now be sending your recycling to new Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) which are capable of sorting a wider range of materials.
If you want to find out more about the full range of materials that you can now recycle, please visit the Recycling at Home page.
Find tasty recipes, sign up for one of our food workshops, keep a food waste diary and learn how to make the most of the food that you buy by cutting down waste and saving money too! Click onto the Love Food Hate Waste link on the right side of this page.
Major UK retailers are introducing new labelling on their packaging to help you identify whether it can be recycled. For more information on the new labelling, click on the On Pack Recycling Labelling link on the right of this page.
The council's Waste Minimisation and Recycling Action Plan for 2009-10 was approved by the Council Executive on 16 April. To see what's in the plan and to watch a video of the meeting at which it was approved, click on the link below.
Islington Council’s free compost giveaway has proved to be a roaring success, with 3,000 bags of recycled compost being snapped up over the last month by local residents visiting the Household Reuse and Recycling Centre. Although the giveaway has now finished, the compost - which is made from recycled kitchen and garden waste - will continue to be available at the Recycling Centre for £3 per bag.
To find out more about how to buy a bag, click on the Compost Offer link on the right of this page.
Islington Council has teamed up with HomeStore to give unwanted furniture a new lease of life. The new service allows residents to request free furniture reuse collections for items which are in good condition.
HomeStore is a charity which collects unwanted furniture from properties in the borough and elsewhere in northeast London for reuse. They work to help low-income households gain access to affordable furniture.
To find out more about the collections, please click on the Furniture Reuse Collections link on the right.
You can now recycle your household batteries at your local library thanks to Islington Council.
Nine battery recycling points have been installed in libraries across the borough, providing you with convenient battery recycling facilities. All portable batteries between 1.5 volts and 9 volts can be placed in them for recycling.
The new battery recycling points can be found in the following libraries:
You can also recycle your household batteries at:
Islington has just launched six videos to help explain our recycling services and help ensure that residents recycle as much as they can.
The videos show:
Why not have a look and make sure you're recycling as much as you can.
Following successful recycling trials in the EC1 NDC area, six estates have received a brand new chute recycling scheme. On each of the estates, chutes have been converted so that residents can use one chute to recycle, and another chute to dispose of their refuse.
Islington Council are trying hard to ensure that all residents have easily accessible recycling facilities. These new facilities mean that recycling is easier than ever for six estates.
These are:
Lagonier House and Anchor House also use chute recycling systems.
Page Last Updated: 01 February 2010