Crime Not To Care 2025
Your rubbish, your responsibility
We have launched the Keep Britain Tidy ‘Crime not to Care’ campaign in Redbridge to highlight to everyone who lives and works here that we all play a part in keeping our borough clean and tidy. It’s a great time to check if you are managing your waste correctly.
We want everyone to enjoy clean streets. Clean streets are easier to walk or push a pram or use a wheelchair along, they create a positive environment for householders and businesses in our community. Between April 2023 and the end of March 2024 we cleared 5,983 reported fly-tips and proactively cleared 13,933 fly-tips. That’s a combined total of 19,465 piles of dumped rubbish! This big clear up is paid for with Redbridge council tax payer's money.
Dumping rubbish on our streets is illegal
It’s also completely unnecessary. We provide many ways to dispose of waste responsibly.
The rubbish we create in our own lives is our own responsibility. Redbridge Council offers a range of services to dispose of household waste correctly. We also have an Environmental Enforcement team in place to tackle illegal waste dumping.
Checklists
We offer weekly household waste collections and weekly recycling collections. Make sure you are using our services correctly and taking responsibility for your waste with our handy checklists:
Household waste checklist
- All waste must be inside your official Redbridge wheelie bin with the lid closed
- Get your waste ready for collection on the correct day, at the correct time, check your collection details
- Make sure your waste is in the right place for collection. It should be placed within the boundary of your property near to the highway, but not on the pavement (if you leave waste on the highway you may be prosecuted)
- If you need a different container or help with your collections, find out how
Household recycling checklist
Make sure you are recycling everything you can, to do something positive for the environment and to make room in your wheelie bin.
Recycling should be presented using the two box system, although you can also present in clear plastic bags too if you don’t have boxes. Here’s what we accept in our two box system:
Box 1:
- Food tins, drinks cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Plastic bottles
- Clean plastic pots, tubs and trays (rinsed, no food, no black plastic)
- Empty aerosol cans
- Clean aluminium foil, including foil trays (rinsed, no food, scrunch small pieces)
Box 2:
- Paper
- Envelopes (including windows)
- Thin card
- Thick card (ensure this is folded or cut to fit inside your recycling box)
You can present as much recycling as you need to in clear bags with separated recyclables if your boxes are completely full.
Disposing of Bulky or large items checklist
From time to time, a household will have items to dispose of which are too large for our household waste collection service. If you have a fridge, sofa, or other large item you can:
Tradesperson and paid waste removal services checklist
If you hire someone to dispose of your waste, always make sure they are a licensed waste carrier. Otherwise, you could be fined or prosecuted
- Ask to see their waste carrier's license. Many responsible tradespeople will provide their waste carrier’s license number on the advertisement. If not, they should provide it upon request
- If the person refuses to share their license number, do not hire them. Waste Carrier Licenses are public information
- Check the license number against the Environment Agency’s Register
Garden waste disposal checklist
We encourage everyone in the borough to try composting at home. It's an amazing way to reduce your waste, do something good for nature and deal with your garden waste without it leaving your house.
We also offer a green garden waste collection service from spring to autumn.
Whatever the type of waste, it is your responsibility to make sure it is disposed of correctly.
