Recycling and waste

Recycling in Tower Hamlets is quick and easy. It’s about making a simple choice between putting items in your bin or recycling them.

Even better than recycling is reducing the amount of waste we produce in the first place, which can also save you lots of money.

Online services

Request a bulk rubbish collection
Report a missed commercial waste collection
Report a missed household waste collection
Report a flytip on a public road
Check your collection dates

Waste collections

Tower Hamlets provides a weekly refuse and recycling collection to residents. Figures released for April 2016 to March 2017 show that a staggering 8.8 million collections took place over that period.

View the refuse and recycling collection figures.