Recycling More in Brent

Our new recycling strategy will be implemented later this year.  You can find out further detail at the Brent web site on recycling more.  The most important changes are:

• We will replace the current green box with a wheelie bin collected every other week.
• We will collect the landfill bin every other week, and impose a "closed lid" policy where we only collect the bin if all the waste is in it.
• We will extend a food waste collection to the 28,000 low rise households that currently don't have it We will also continue the existing food and garden waste collections.  Both of these will remain weekly collections.
• We will improve recycling in flats in the early part of 2012.

The new bins will start rolling out in September, and the new collection service starts on 3 October.