Camden: which bins go out tonight?
Find your bin collection schedule, what goes in each bin, and when it's collected in Camden.
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What Camden collects
Mixed recycling or cans
recycling bin or bags
What goes in:
- plastic – including bottles, pots, tubs, cartons and carrier bags (empty and untied)
- paper – including newspapers, magazines and letters
- cardboard – including cereal and egg boxes
- metal – including tins, cans, aerosols, aluminium foil and bottle tops
- glass – including bottles and jars
What doesn't go in:
- We won’t collect your recycling if it contains anything that can’t be recycled. This includes black bin bags, textiles, electricals, nappies or food.
- If your recycling or food waste contains items that shouldn’t be there, we won’t be able to take them.
- Vapes, electrical items, household and lithium batteries, and gas (NOx) canisters become extremely flammable when they are crushed.
- ceramics
- coat hangers
- cotton wool or makeup pads
- crisp packets
- cutlery, crockery, pots, and pans
- dirty or used tissues and paper towels
- glass cookware, Pyrex, ovenware
- glitter covered cards or wrapping paper
- household batteries
- laminated plastic or foil pouches like baby food, cat food, coffee pouches
- light bulbs
- medicine packs like headache pills
- mirrors
- paint pots
- paper or card stained or dirty with paint, food or grease
- plastic toys or other hard plastic items, like garden furniture, buckets and bins
- sticky papers like post-it-notes, sticky labels and paper tape
- sweet wrappers
- toothpaste tubes
- wallpaper
- window glass
- wood
- black bin bags
- clothing
- electrical items and batteries
- food waste
- nappies
- polystyrene
- tissues
- the right items, but dirty or with leftover food, oil or grease on them
Camden says: Your recycling needs to be clean, dry and empty so that it can be collected.
Source: www.camden.gov.uk · www.camden.gov.uk
Food waste
food waste bin or caddy
What goes in:
- fruit and vegetables
- meat, fish and bones
- tea bags and coffee grounds
- bread and pastries
- dairy products
- rice, pasta and beans
- eggs and eggshells
- cooked and leftover food
What doesn't go in:
- If your recycling or food waste contains items that shouldn’t be there, we won’t be able to take them.
Camden says: If you live in a house or converted house you can line your caddy or put food waste straight in. If you do line your caddy, please use a compostable food bin liner, old newspaper or kitchen paper. Please don’t use black bin bags to line your caddy.
Source: www.camden.gov.uk
Rubbish
rubbish bin or bags
What goes in:
- clingfilm
- cellophane
- sanitary products
- dog poo and cat litter
- crisp packets
- polystyrene
- nappies – a nappy collection service is also available
- broken glass – carefully wrapped, so that it is not dangerous to collect
- Single-use face coverings, PPE or rapid lateral flow home test kits, but you can recycle the cardboard packaging, cardboard tube holder and paper instruction booklet.
What doesn't go in:
- Vapes, electrical items, household and lithium batteries, and gas (NOx) canisters become extremely flammable when they are crushed.
- We won’t collect DIY rubbish such as rubble and plasterboard.
- You must arrange separate collections for bulky waste, white goods and furniture.
Source: www.camden.gov.uk
Garden waste
garden waste
What goes in:
- grass cuttings
- weeds
- dead flowers
- garden prunings
- leaves and bark
What doesn't go in:
- soil or rubble
- plant pots
- stones
- large tree cuttings
- food waste
- any other general rubbish
Camden says: You should put your garden waste: in your white bags or brown bin; outside the registered address by 7am on your collection day; within one metre of the front entrance of the registered property. Garden waste that does not fit in your bags or your bin will not be collected. From 22 June to 4 September we'll collect your garden waste bags earlier than usual. Make sure your bins and garden waste bags are out by 6am. If you live in a house, or a house divided up into flats, you can pay to have your garden waste collected each week.
Source: www.camden.gov.uk
What Camden says about bin day
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Camden says it won’t collect your recycling if it contains black bin bags, textiles, electricals, nappies or food.
From Camden's website (checked 2026-10-23)
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