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LBH recycling advice

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FROM LBH:
News Release
23 September 2025 Rescue your recycling this Recycle Week To mark Recycle Week 2025 (22 to 28 September), Hillingdon Council is encouraging residents to carefully check what they’re putting out for collection and discover how to reduce household waste at a recycling-themed event.
  
This year’s Recycle Week theme, ‘Rescue Me! Recycle!’ encourages people to recycle all they can by highlighting items regularly thrown away in general waste that can be recycled.  
 
While most households in Hillingdon sort their recycle well, items that the council can’t recycle can sometimes still be found in clear, dry, mixed recycling sacks by collection crews. To help residents eliminate those, the council’s ‘Top of the Contaminants’ campaign highlights how items, like food and clothing, can be recycled through other services it offers. 
 
To make it easier for residents to recycle household items, the council offers weekly rubbish and recycling collections, garden and food waste recycling, small electrical bins in libraries and doorstep textiles collections in partnership with the textiles charity, Traid. Harefield Civic Amenity Site also has dedicated bins for vapes and coffee pods. 
 
By taking two seconds to carefully check what’s going into their clear sacks, residents can play their part and help ensure that what goes to the processing plant is of high quality. 
 
Hands-on guidance for repairing clothes and small electrical items will be available to visitors to the council’s free Repair and Reuse Day at Botwell Green Leisure Centre in Hayes, on Saturday 27 September, from 11am to 2pm.  
 
The council’s recycling team is hosting a Recycling Roadshow at the event where you can get useful hints, tips and advice for household recycling and sign up for services, including automatic bag deliveries and food waste collections.    
 
By taking small steps to rescue recyclables and remove contaminants residents can make a big contribution to improving recycling in Hillingdon. 
 
Cllr Eddie Lavery, Hillingdon Council’s Cabinet Member for Community and Environment, said: “It’s great that so many households in Hillingdon already do their best to sort and separate what they can. While for some items, like sanitary products, going in the waste bin is the only option, for most other items from small electricals to coffee pods and batteries, the council offers a recycling solution. 
 
“Recycle Week’s campaign encourages not throwing away recyclable items. By also removing ‘top contaminants’ and properly disposing of non-recyclables, we can ensure we are collecting high quality recycling and reducing waste, which is better for the planet.” 
 
Find out what you can and can’t recycle in Hillingdon at www.hillingdon.gov.uk/rubbishandrecycling.

Yes please Dry mixed recycling

In Hillingdon, you can recycle paper, cardboard, glass and plastics every week for free – and it all goes in the same clear (dry mixed) recycling bag.
Watch our ‘That’s not my recycling’ video, which encourages children to ask grown-ups to check they’re only putting items we can recycle in to their clear bags. It can also be used by schools and families to talk about recycling at school and home.
We’ve also created a ‘Top of the Pops’ style chart countdown, exposing the top 5 contaminating items most commonly found in residents’ dry mixed recycling bags. What can I recycle in my dry mixed recycling bags?

Important: Please ensure all items/containers are clean, dry and empty.
Aerosol cans (do not pierce or squash)
Aluminium foil (clean)
Books
Butter and margarine tubs
Cardboard Cartons
Catalogues
Directories
Drinks cans
Envelopes
Food cans
Foil trays and containers
Glass bottles and jars (lids can be added to your recycling bag separately)
Junk mall
Magazines Newspapers
Paper
Plastic trays
Plastic bottles (including lids)
Shredded paper
Tetra packs (cartons with a waxed finish)
Wrapping paper (not the foil type)
Yellow Pages
Yoghurt pots

No thanks
Asthma pumps
Batteries
Bubble wrap
Clinical waste
Crisp packets
Disposable nappies
Disposable takeaway cups
Flower pots
Flowers and flower packaging
Food waste
Hard plastics
Hot food containers
Light bulbs
Packaging tape
Pet food packaging
Plastic toys
Polystyrene
Prescription bottles
Sanitary products
Shopping bags
Textiles
Wood  
 

Hillingdon u3a update

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It seems that, although u3a was coined as an acronym for University of the Third Age, the ‘university’ word carried too many implications. What follows is a more accurate description gleaned from the Hillingdon u3a website:

Based in West London, Hillingdon u3a provides many educational, creative and leisure opportunities for its members in a friendly environment. This is achieved by its members running over 80 interest groups. You can see the list of these in the Groups page. Hillingdon u3a is well established having formed 24 years ago and now has over 850 members across the Ruislip, Ickenham, Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Hayes and West Drayton area. It also has an active social programme of monthly meetings, visits, walks, concerts, theatre trips and a regular members’ newsletter.

Garden waste reminder and tag instructions

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FROM LBH Our crews will begin collections on Monday 7 July. You can check your collection date on our website.  Garden waste sacks will only be collected from properties that have subscribed.   As part of your subscription, you will be sent three green tags to make it easier to identify your garden waste collection sacks. Please write your address clearly on each tag using permanent ink and attach one to each sack.   Watch our short video below, to see how to attach your tags correctly (opens in a new window). Garden waste how to video https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FODK8pSqlc0 An additional three sacks and three tags can be requested via the council website if required (a maximum of 6 sacks and tags per household).  Or by contacting the civic centre on 01895 250111 If your tags haven’t arrived by the time collections start don’t worry as our crews will know who has subscribed. Please write your house number clearly on your sacks in permanent marker and put them out for collection as normal.

Garden waste update from LBH

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We’re getting in touch to let you know about a change to our garden waste collection service.  
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From Monday 7 July, garden waste will only be collected from residents who have subscribed to our new fee-based collections. 
Subscribers will receive weekly household collections in spring, summer and autumn (fortnightly in winter) and a 270-litre capacity per collection (three 90-litre canvas sacks) as standard*, for a £70 annual fee.   
You can register now. Once you sign up, you’ll be sent three green tags to attach to the handles of your current canvas sacks to confirm your subscription.
We are already receiving high numbers of subscriptions and, due to manufacturer logistical issues, there’s a chance some tag deliveries may be delayed. However, our crews are able to check all households that have subscribed in real-time during their rounds, so if you’ve not received your tags when your collection is due, please write your house number on your sacks in permanent marker and they will be collected.
*An additional three sacks and three tags can be requested via the council website if required.          

Garden waste booking details

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You should all by now have received the flyer about the new scheme – however the only way indicated to register is online at:
https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/14619/Subscribe-to-our-garden-waste-collection-service

This totally ignores those who do not have access to the internet .
Should they wish to take part in the scheme then we have to assume they will need to contact the civic centre by phone on 01895 250111 as no alternatives are given
Please if you have any elderly neighbours speak to them about this and ensure they know what is going on. Thank you.