Household Waste

Waste Minimisation

We all need to change our behaviour and habits when it comes to dealing with rubbish. By reducing, reusing and recycling your rubbish you can help create a better environment. A Green Guide to Living has many ideas on how you can reduce, reuse and recycle in your home or workplace. You can also find waste minimisation tips on our Recycling pages.

Recycling Services

We provide a range of residential recycling services. The new doorstep recycling service covers those properties with the safe curtilage for the safe storage of a basket. The doorstep service provides once a week recycling collections for paper, card, glass bottles & jars, cans & tins and plastic bottles only. We also operate an extensive network of Micro Recycling Centres where residents can recycle paper & card, glass bottles & jars, cans & tins. At 24 of these sites you can recycle clothes and textiles using bins operated by the charity Scope.

For more information visit our Recycling pages.

Residential Line Collection Service (Individual Bag Collections)

Around 40% of the City receives a 'line collection' from either within or just outside the boundary of the property.

All residential properties receive twice weekly waste collections as a minimum. For the majority of Westminster residential streets waste is collected between 7am and 12 midday.

To find out the waste collection days and times for your street you can

• use our online street search
• complete our online contact form
• call the Environment Action Line on 020 7641 2000

Please help us keep your streets clean and tidy by keeping rubbish bags with your property boundary. Do not place rubbish bags out onto the street.

Residential Housing Paladin Collections

Collections made from residential housing blocks, with around 60% of the City serviced in this way. Normally the collections are made from storage compounds that hold large containers called Paladins (large cylindrical vessels) or Eurobins (large rectangular vessels).

Contact Us:

If you want to complain about a waste collection problem (e.g. a missed collection), call our 24hr Environment Action Line on 020 7641 2000.

You can also write to us:

Waste Collection

Westminster City Council

64 Victoria Street

London

SW1E 6QP