Recycling on estates and high rise properties
Hackney Council has been trialling different methods of collecting recycling from estates and high rise buildings. The results from these trials have been analysed, and a new recycling service is being rolled out to all estates across the borough.
Where space is permitted, estates will have two large bins for mixed recycling collecting:
- Tins and cans
- Plastic bottles
- Cardboard
- Mixed glass bottles and jars
There will also be another bin collecting paper only. Paper will be separated out to keep the quality of the material high, so it can be reprocessed into high quality paper products.
On estates where space is limited, one recycling bin will be placed for mixed materials, colleting:
- Paper
- Tins and cans
- Plastic bottles
- Cardboard
- Mixed glass bottles and jars
These materials can all be put in together.
For those estates which contain street level properties within the grounds, a Green Box door to door collection will be implemented, subject to an assessment carried out by the Council’s recycling contractors. For more information on this service please see the Green Box recycling page.
To find out which service your estate has in place, please phone the recycling hotline.
Food waste recycling trial on selected estates
This project will collect kitchen waste from 5000 households on estates and private apartments in Hackney.
Residents are issued with a 10 litre kitchen caddy and compostable liners. Residents then take their kitchen waste to the kitchen waste recycling bin located on site, near existing recycling facilities. The on site food containers will be emptied up to three times a week by the recycling crew. Residents can recycle:
Yes
- Fruit
- Bread and pasta
- Raw vegetables
- Cooked meat
- All cooked food
- Tea bags
- Egg shells
- Cooked vegetables
- Cooked fish
No
- Plastic bags
- Raw meat and fish
- Bones
- Tins & cans
- Glass
- Paper
Estates and high rise properties participating in this trial include:
All Nations House
Amber Wharf
Amwell Court Estate
Arden Estate
Avenue House
Avon House
Belgrade House
Boscobel House
Burma Court Estate
Charles Burton Court
Clissold Court
Crawshay House
De Beauvoir Estate
Eagle Mansions
Hawksley Court Estate
Herbert Butler Estate
Ickburgh Estate
Lea View Estate
Medway House
Norfolk House
Old Kingshold Estate
Pitfield Estate 1
Portland Rise Estate
Queen Elizabeths Close
Scholars Yard
Shacklewell House
Shellgrove Estate
Shore Estate
Somerford Grove Estate
St Phillips Estate
The Colonades
Whitmore Estate
Wilton Estate
Page updated: 13 Oct 2008