LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM
Media Release: 13 January 2011
Ref: MR20

New move to increase recycling

Over the next 6 weeks, recycling advisors will visit 30,000 homes on Lewisham’s housing estates and blocks of flats, to help and encourage residents to recycle more.

The recycling advisors will deliver leaflets providing all the latest information about the additional materials that can now be recycled, together with 50-litre recycling bags designed to help residents to store and carry their dry recyclables to their nearest recycling bins on their estate or development.

Following a change of contract, Lewisham Council’s waste and recycling is now being handled by Bywaters (Leyton) Ltd. Using sophisticated sorting systems, Lewisham residents can now recycle many more items than in the past. The additional items include tetrapacks such as juice cartons, mixed plastics, aerosols, shredded paper, bubble wrap, carrier bags, old clothes and other textiles.

A complete list of items that can now be recycled is on the Council’s website: http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/recycling