Collections of old recycling boxes begin in Croydon next week

Residents who want the old boxes collected after receiving new bins should leave them empty, with the lid inside, on the kerbside on Monday 24 September.

The boxes will be collected separately to recycling and waste, possibly on a different day.

Councillor Nina Degrads, deputy cabinet member for clean, green Croydon, said: “We are collecting bins from hundreds of properties across the borough over the next two weeks.

“If you want your old recycling box collected please empty it and leave it at the edge of your property.

“Of course, you are welcome to keep your blue boxes for another purpose if you want but make sure they are not left somewhere the collection team may think they are meant to be taken away.”

The boxes will be collected over the next two weeks.

If residents do not want their boxes collected, they should not leave them in the front garden during this period.

The recycling boxes will not be collected from properties that did not receive new bins.

More than 200,000 new bins have been delivered across the borough with 75% of properties changing collection day.

The new bins are part of the council’s effort to increase the borough’s recycling rate to 50% over the next two years.

Residents have raised concerns over the size of the new recycling bins, which some say are too large to fit in their front gardens.

Most homes now have 240-litre wheelie bin for mixed paper and card as well as a new 180-litre wheelie bin for general rubbish.

Existing 240-litre bins previously used for general waste will instead be used for recycling glass, plastic packaging, cans and cartons.