Recycling in Ealing

Improvements in Ealing's recycling services, such as the introduction of plastics recycling and the provision of reusable sacks for garden waste, have resulted in an increase in recycling rates, the Council says in a recent press release. On average 35.9% of the borough’s waste has been recycled since April, compared to 28.66% for the same time last year.

Annual average in England is around 34%, so Ealing's not doing too badly. (Mind you, households in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany recycle around 60%, and Friends of the Earth reckons that at least 80% of our waste could be recycled or composted ..... )

The Council has also launched a free fridge freezer collection service. Altogether more than 1,200 fridge freezers were collected in June and July – far exceeding the 979 collected for the whole of last year. The number of fridges that were fly-tipped in the borough has also fallen by a third.

Restaurants and businesses in Ealing are being encouraged to recycle their waste cooking oil. The Council is offering special 60-litre storage barrels, made from recycled plastic, to organisations signed up to its free waste cooking oil collection scheme – the first of its kind in London. Thousands of litres of oil have already been collected since December. The oil collected is taken away by Proper Oils Ltd to be turned into biodiesel in its refinery in Twickenham.

Have you received your reusable white sack for mixed plastic recycling collection? If not, call Ealing Council Customer Services on 8825 6000 or email customers@ealing.gov.uk ).