| Bank holiday rubbish and recycling collection days Collection days for households and businesses during the bank holiday periods. To minimise disruption to waste and recycling collections during the Christmas and New Year period, our crews will be working on Saturdays 20 and 27 December and Saturday 3 January. Christmas collection days Normal collection day > Revised collection day Monday 22 December > Saturday 20 December Tuesday 23 December > Monday 22 December Wednesday 24 December > Tuesday 23 December Thursday 25 December > Wednesday 24 December Friday 26 December > Saturday 27 December New Year holiday collection days Normal collection day > Revised collection day Monday 29 December > No change Tuesday 30 December > No change Wednesday 31 December No change Thursday 1 January > Friday 2 January Friday 2 January > Saturday 3 January Please leave your rubbish out for collection by 6am, near your front gate, but not on the pavement. Separate arrangements are in place for flats and business premises. |
Category Archives: Resources
Garden waste collections
Garden waste collections become fortnightly from 1st December 2025 to 28th February 2026
whether there will be a collection on Dec 2nd is unclear from the council’s website
Colne Valley Park autumn newsletter
we have recently been sent this and thought you might find it of interest
https://www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Edition-12-Autumn-25-A4.pdf
Asylum accommodation and protests
Mount Vernon urgent care closing Sept 26
| Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Service The Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Service at Mount Vernon Hospital will be reconfigured into the Urgent Treatment Centre at Hillingdon Hospital. The last patients will be seen at the Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Service on Friday 26 September 2025. Patients should not attend after 4pm. This will help us to strengthen our service at the Urgent Treatment Centre at Hillingdon Hospital and ensure that our local communities continue to receive the best care possible. All other services at Mount Vernon Hospital remain open as usual. The closest alternative services are: Watford General Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, Vicarage Road WD18 0HB. This is open from 8am until 2pm every day. (5 miles); Northwick Park Urgent Treatment Centre, Watford Road, Harrow HA1 3UJ. This is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (7 miles). Hillingdon Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, Pield Heath Road, UB8 3NN. This is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (7.5 miles) |
LBH Waste and Recycling newsletter
The council has sent a newsletter to subscribers. An image of all the pertinent content, without hyperlinks (which would have exposed my source), is here
LBH recycling advice
| 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 |
Visit Swakeleys House Sunday Sept 21
| The house will be open on a drop in basis from 10 to 6 pm on Sunday 21st September Entry from Milton Road more info https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/1939 |
Hillingdon u3a update
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.
FOTE festival 20th September
From Friends Of The Earth
HILLINGDON CLEANER GREENER FESTIVAL
SATURDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER
UXBRIDGE TOWN CENTRE
ST MARGARET’S CHURCH
WINDSOR STREET UB8 1AB
11 A.M. TO 4 P.M.
FREE ADMISSION
COME AND FIND OUT ABOUT
HOME SOLAR
HEAT PUMPS AND INSULATION
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
CHILDREN’S’ FUN AND GAMES CARE AND CAMPAIGNS FOR NATURE
FOR STALL AND ENQUIRIES
CONTACT NICKI 07757 762512 info@hcgfestival.org
Ickenham Residents' Association 
