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Recycling and rubbish

Festive recycling covered

Make sure you’re on the nice list by following Santa’s little recyclers tips.

  • anything with a plug, battery or cable can be recycled including fairy lights. These should never go in your green bin as they could cause a fire. Take them to your nearest recycling point.
    Visit the Electrical recycling website to find out more
  • food and drink cans and empty aerosols, glass bottles, jars, plastic bottles and foil will be collected from home if you leave them out in your white lidded bin. Large empty biscuit or chocolate tins can also be recycled in your white lidded bin
  • Christmas TV guides, other paper and magazines can go in your blue lidded bin. Remove embellishments such as ribbons or glitter from Christmas cards and wrapping paper before recycling them
  • only buy and cook as much food as you need! Use up your leftovers - for inspiration visit the Love Food Hate Waste website. Any unavoidable food waste can be placed in your food waste recycling box. If you do not have one order a food waste box today or call 020 8303 7777 and ask for ‘waste and recycling’
  • real Christmas trees will be collected from households that have signed up to our garden waste collection service. Ensure you’ve removed all decorations, cut the tree in half and place it next to your garden waste bin
    sign up for the garden waste service

Cleaning up Bexleyheath Town Centre

Work to clear the chewing gum in the pedestrianised area in Bexleyheath Broadway finished at the end of October.  The clean-up was paid for by the Chewing Gum Task Force following our successful funding application.

New signage to prevent chewing gum littering should discourage people from doing this however anyone witnessed committing this littering offence in the Borough will get a fixed penalty notice of £300.

Replacing old litter bins

Work continues to replace the Borough’s old litter bins with more modern ones and to provide additional litter bins in places with high footfall and a high incidence of littering.

To date more than 150 od bins have been replaced with new modern bins in Bexley’s town centres and 200 additional new bins have been installed adjacent to bus stops in the Borough. We’ve also taken the opportunity to improve the appearance of some of the existing bins in Sidcup, Welling and Albany Park by replacing worn-out signage on the bins and giving them a deep clean.

In total we have introduced an additional 53 on-street recycling bins so that people can now recycle their plastic bottles, cans, glass bottles, newspapers and cardboard packaging in more of the borough’s town centres and shopping areas. The third and final phase of the work to improve bin infrastructure and keep Bexley clean and green will begin later this year.

Cllr Diment with one of the new bins

Service arrangements for Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025

Revised arrangements will be in place for rubbish and recycling collections until Monday 6 January 2025.

More information and dates

man with Christmas tree