This year’s theme, Rescue Me! Recycle!, encourages people to recycle all they can by highlighting items regularly thrown away in general waste that can be repurposed.
Items the council can’t recycle can sometimes still be found in mixed recycling sacks by collection crews.
To help residents eliminate those, a ‘Top of the Contaminants’ campaign highlights how items, like food and clothing, can be recycled through other services the borough offers.
It has weekly rubbish and recycling collections, garden and food waste recycling, small electrical bins in libraries and doorstep textiles collections in partnership with the charity, Traid.
Harefield Civic Amenity Site also has dedicated bins for vapes and coffee pods.
Hands-on guidance for repairing clothes and small electrical items will be available at a free Repair and Reuse Day at Botwell Green Leisure Centre in Hayes, this Saturday (27) from 11am to 2pm.
Cllr Eddie Lavery, Cabinet Member for Community and Environment, said: “It’s great that so many households in Hillingdon already do their best to sort and separate what they can.
“For most other items, from small electricals to coffee pods and batteries, the council offers a recycling solution.”
