Business recycling collections
Check what items your business can recycle, instructions for collection and how to report a missed collection.
What you can recycle
The following items can go (together) in your business recycling bag:
- cardboard
- glass bottles and jars
- paper
- plastic bottles, tubs and trays
- steel and aluminium tins and cans
- Tetra Pak cartons
- tin foil.
Important: Please ensure all items are clean and dry.
Order more commercial recycling sacks
Instructions for collection
- All recycling must be placed in either in the clear recycling bags provided or inside your recycling bin.
- All dry recyclables can be mixed into the same bag - there is no need to sort different materials into separate bags. If you have any big cardboard items, please flatten these.
- Bins need to be put out no later than 6am on the day of your collection and must be placed within 10 metres from where our vehicles can access them.
- The weight of individual bins must not exceed 100kg.
Please note: Damaged bins should be reported to us by emailing tradewaste@hillingdon.gov.uk.
Missed collection
If your business waste hasn't been collected on your collection day and you have followed instructions for collection, please complete our online form.
A missed collection cannot be reported until after 1.30pm on your collection day and must be within 48 hours of the collection being missed.
We will make another collection within 3 working days.
Report a missed business recycling collection
Other business recycling
We do not currently offer a separate collection for business garden waste or textiles. If your business produces this type of waste, please take it to a waste and recycling centre, where it can be recycled, or place it into your general waste bins or rubbish sacks.