You can take household waste and recycling to the Household Reuse and Recycle Centre.
You can't take business, commercial or trade waste. This also includes waste from gardening and building work carried out on a domestic property, if the person carrying out the work is not the homeowner. For more information on this waste type and how to dispose, please visit the business, commercial or trade waste page.
Is the item you are bringing reusable or repairable?
Any items that are in good, working, clean and reusable condition, can be taken to our HRRC Community Reuse Shop or be donated to local shops and charities.
Get broken items repaired, rather than throwing them away and buying new ones. Find online guides to fix things at home, or use our repair map to find businesses in the borough that can help.
What we can accept
For a full list of items and how to best dispose of them, visit our A to Z of rubbish and recycling.
For reuse:
- bicycles
- books
- CD's, DVD's, Videos
- furniture
- shoes
- textiles
For any other items that are in good working, clean and reusable condition please speak to our staff on site to see if it could go to our reuse shop.
For recycling:
- aluminium foil
- batteries (household and car)
- beverage cartons
- cans
- cardboard
- christmas trees
- computers
- cookers
- disposable vapes
- electrical goods and cables (large and small)
- engine oil
- engine oil containers
- fluorescent energy saving bulbs (if intact)
- fridges and freezers
- garden waste, leaves and grass cuttings
- garden machinery, lawn mowers, grass and hedge trimmers (if applicable the fuel/oil must be removed first)
- gas cylinders and canisters
- glass bottles, tableware, pyrex, mirrors and window glass
- mobile phones
- paint cans - empty and rinsed
- paper
- plasterboard
- plastic bottles
- printer toner cartridges
- rubble or DIY waste (See the Rubble Charging Policy before bringing this waste)
- soil (See the Rubble Charging Policy before bringing this waste)
- scrap metals
- spectacles and glasses
- televisions
- washing machines
- wood
For disposal:
- non-recyclable household waste
- food waste - please put in your food waste collection bin
- hessian backed carpet*
- mattresses*
- paint - water based that is solidified in its pot
- rigid plastics such as children's toys and washing up bowls*
*recycled where possible
We can't accept
- antifreeze
- asbestos
- chemicals
- hazardous waste
- oil based paint
- petrol
To dispose of these items please contact the City of London hazardous waste service.
Book your visit
Book a time slot to visit the household reuse and recycling centre.