Recycling, rubbish and waste
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Assisted collection service
An assisted refuse collection service provided to residents who, through illness or infirmity, are unable to put out their refuse.
Food and garden waste service
The brown bin recycling service for food and garden waste is available to all street properties with frontage to store the containers.
Hazardous waste collection
Collection of waste which is of a hazardous nature and cannot be disposed of through regular household or business waste collections.
Household recycling collections
Waltham Forest operates a weekly mixed dry recycling service from residential properties. Residents have been provided with a green recycling wheeled bin
Household waste collections
Waltham Forest provides a weekly collection of household rubbish from all residential properties.
Recycling in Waltham Forest
The Council now operates a mixed recycling service, which enables you to recycle more materials and makes recycling easier for you.
Refuse - duty of care - enforcement
Duty of care to deal with the storage and disposal of waste in the appropriate manner.
Refuse and recycling centres
There are three Household Waste and Recycling Centres in Waltham Forest.
Report fly tipping
The Council has responsibility for acting on reports of flytipping to both remove the waste and to locate and prosecute the offenders. Where the waste
Request a bulky waste collection
Bulky waste collection service from residential properties for items not suitable for the weekly household refuse/recycling collection.
Trade waste
Shops, factories and other businesses have a Duty of Care under Section 34 of The Environmental Protection Act 1990 to dispose of their waste.
