You can now recycle small electricals with your weekly kerbside waste and recycling collections.
If you put out your waste and recycling in wheeled bins or sacks on the street, you can now place out anything with a plug, cable or battery on top of your refuse bin or next to your sacks.
The new service makes recycling unwanted or broken small electricals even easier.
The service aims to provide residents with a non-bookable, convenient way to dispose of small electronic items. It will help ensure that electronic waste is properly recycled.
This service is open to all residents who currently use the new wheeled bins or present their waste and recycling in bags and sacks at the edge of their property.
We are currently unable to provide this service if you live in a block of flats or housing estate with a communal rubbish bin. Check below for other ways to recycle your electricals.
Collection day
The small electrical collection will take place on the same day as your normal waste collection. It will be collected by the refuse team and placed into dedicated cages on the refuse collection vehicle for recycling.
How to leave items out
Items will be collected weekly. On the collection day, the small electrical items are to be placed next to or on the waste bin by 6am.
Electricals cannot be placed in wheeled bins, dustbins or bin bags and sacks. Electricals need to be presented loose next to your normal collections.
We have limited space on our collection vehicles, so we kindly ask you to follow a 'little and often' approach. If your item doesn't get collected straight away, please take it back inside, and try again the following week. Alternatively take it to one of our recycling points listed below.
What we can collect
Items must be no larger than 17cm x 25cm x 25cm.
We accept the following electrical items for collection:
B to H
- Battery and electric clippers
- Calculators
- Cameras
- Chargers and cables
- Clocks
- Coffee grinders
- Coffee machines (small)
- Curlers and hair straighteners
- Drills and impact drivers
- DVD players and VHS players
- Electric and battery shavers
- Electric and battery-powered toys
- Electric toothbrushes
- Electric whisks
- Electrical cables
- Extension leads
- Fans
- Games consoles and controllers
- Grinders and car polishers
- Hair dryers
- Hand-held hoovers
- Hi-Fi equipment
I to W
- Ice cream makers
- Irons
- Juicers and blenders
- Kettles
- Keyboards, mice and headphones
- Lamps (recycle light bulbs at libraries)
- Laptops *
- Mains sockets and light switches
- Mobile phones *
- Printers (please recycle the cartridges elsewhere)
- Radios
- Remote controls
- Routers and Wi-fi boosters
- Sanders
- Set top boxes
- Smart speakers and devices
- Soldering irons
- Tablets *
- Telephones
- Thermostats
- Toasters and sandwich makers
- Watches
*Please remove all personal data
Items we can't collect
- Appliances larger than 17cm x 25cm x 25cm but smaller than 50cm x 50cm x 50cm (for example, microwaves): Take to a household waste and recycling centre (HWRC).
- Larger items such as washing machines, fridges or dishwashers: Take to Smugglers Way, Wandsworth or arrange a bulky waste collection.
- Batteries, lightbulbs and vapes: Take these to internal bins located at Askew, Hammersmith, Avonmore or Fulham libraries.
- Textiles: Book a free home collection of these by TRAID.
Where else can I recycle?
You can recycle your small electricals at any time at the following outdoor small electrical banks. Items must be no bigger than a microwave to fit in the banks.
External bank locations:
- Dawes Road junction of Aintree Street, SW6 7QZ
- Durrell Road junction with Fulham Park Road, SW6 5LQ
- Eelbrook Common, New King's Road, SW6 4SG
- Lillie Road junction of Everington Street, SW6 7PD
- Munster Road junction of Kingwood Road, SW6 6AZ
- North End Road near Lytton Estate (bus stop R), W14 0SJ
- Peterborough Road junction with Sulivan Court, SW6 3DL
- Uxbridge Road opposite Askew Crescent, W12 0NE
- Waitrose car park entrance, Heckfield Place, SW6 5BE
