Skip to content

We use cookies on this site

If you don't want to accept cookies, you can change your preferences

Accept Manage cookies
  3. Home
  4. Recycling and rubbish
  5. What you can and can't recycle

Elections on 2 May

Elections for the next Mayor of London and London Assembly members, as well as the by-election for Hillrise ward, will take place on Thursday 2 May. You must now show photo ID when you vote at polling stations. See a full list of accepted forms of ID.

Find your nearest polling station.

Rubbish bins icon

Textiles and clothes

Find your nearest textile recycling point.

General information

You can recycle your unwanted clothes, textiles and shoes at the recycling points listed below. Put them into the clothes bank inside a plastic bag or in loose.

All shoes can be put into a bag or tied together as a pair and put into the textiles recycling bank

Bed linen such as sheets, duvet covers and pillow cases can be placed in our textile bins but not any filled linen items such as duvets or pillows.

Collection service

Traid offers a free collection service of your unwanted textiles from your door. Collections are arranged by appointment only with Traid. This would suit residents who have a lot of clothes to donate at one time. Complete the booking form or telephone Traid on 020 8733 2595.

 

Find your nearest textile recycling site 

The textile locations are yellow on the map:

If you have a suggestion for where to put a new textile recycling site, please let us know.

What happens to the clothes and textiles

Donated clothes are transformed into high quality stock for the Traid charity shops. TRAID hand sorts donations at a warehouse in London selecting stock for Traid shops based on condition, quality and style. It’s a major process which sees the team sorting, hanging, tagging, pricing and merchandising around 11,000 garments per week to reuse and resell. The funds raised in the charity shops from stopping clothes from being thrown away are committed to global projects improving conditions and working practices in the textile industry. Clothing not suitable for resale is given free of charge to textile recyclers and is mostly used as industrial cleaning cloths.

Was this information helpful?



Data protection: We will handle your personal information in line with the Data Protection Act 1998 and in accordance with the council’s Fair Processing Notice.