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Easter service changes

During the Easter period, some of our services will be operating slightly different hours. Our council’s bin collection schedule will change for one week starting on Friday 29 March to make sure everyone’s waste is picked up around the bank holiday.

See the full schedule and your amended rubbish and recycling collection dates and other service changes including parking and library opening times over the Easter period.

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Why we recycle

Find out why everyone in Islington must recycle, helping save money and making a greener, healthier Islington.

70 per cent of what we throw away could be recycled or composted and it costs twice as much to get rid of a tonne of rubbish than to recycle it.

Each household in Islington produces around a car’s weight in rubbish every year, most of which is sent to a waste facility where it is burned.

Because of this, and at a time when Government funding for councils is being cut every year, we are looking for other ways of dealing with our rubbish and how we can produce less of it by reducing, reusing and recycling. 

Reasons to recycle your waste 

Recycling:

  • is efficient – items you recycle can be made into something else useful
  • reduces demand for raw materials that are becoming harder to get and more expensive
  • creates jobs
  • reduces the amount of carbon we produce which means less impact on the environment.

This is why you must recycle your waste in Islington.

Educational resources for primary school teachers

North London Waste Authority (NLWA) has launched the Education Hub, a set of resources for primary schools about reducing waste. 

There are videos, lesson guides, assembly plans and handbooks with subjects like 'the journey of waste’, ‘composting’ and ‘take action for the environment’.

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