Mobile Recycling Centre @ Sainsbury's Dog Kennel Hill

[Veolia Southwark]

The Mobile Recycling Centre will again be at Sainsbury's Dog Kennel Hill between 10am and 1pm on Wed 5 Oct.

The Mobile Recycling Centre is a FREE service, funded by the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB), to make it easier for residents to recycle materials which cannot be collected as part of normal household recycling collections and accepts the following:

>Books (new!)

>Small electrical appliances (please note: the electrical bank in the car park has now been removed owing to abuse)

>Wood and timber

>Metal

>CDs/DVDs

>Clothes and shoes

>Printer cartridges

>Batteries

>Lightbulbs of any kind

Materials collected are brought to the Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility before being sent onto charities and reprocessors to be reused or recycled.

The Mobile Recycling Centre also dispenses biodegradable garden waste sacks and clear recycling sacks. It also sells 'Pro Grow' soil conditioner and subsidised compost bins and wormeries.

It DOES NOT accept general waste or standard household recycling (except cardboard)

[Townleygreen]

do you mean October?

[Veolia Southwark]

I do, apologies

[slarti b]

Hi, We have used the Lambeth recycling depot in West Dulwich for many years since it is close and convenient. But I have been told that, from 1 Oct, it will be restricted to Lambeth residents meaning the closest Southwark recylicng centre is off Old Kent Road.

So, can you have this mobile recycling centre at Sainsburys operating at weekends, when ordinary working people can use it, rather than in the middle of the week?

[Penguin68]

My understanding is that Sainbury's is only prepared to give up prime parking spaces during relatively low use periods. Not surprisingly.

[slarti b]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> My understanding is that Sainbury's is only prepared to give up prime parking spaces during relatively low use periods.

Fair point. Is there somewhere else that the council could arrange for Veolia to use at weekends which is more accessible for Dulwich residents?

[uncleglen]

Car park on Peckham rye, or the BelAir park car park maybe? Also they may only operate a skeleton service over the weekend as I daresay they would receive higher wages for anti-social working hours

[Veolia Southwark]

Thank you for all your comments. Use of the Mobile Recycling Centre is being reviewed in the coming months and this feedback will be very useful.

[kiera]

Veolia - I definitely agree that it would be helpful if the mobile recycling unit could be made available to us for more than the current mere 3 hours a month on a weekday morning. So, as suggested by previous posters - more locations & more choice of times, particularly as the number of permanent recycling sites are being reduced, as already mentioned. The next one to go is the one on Peckham Rye Common, due to fly-tipping abuse, The Friends of Peckham Rye Park have said it's going shortly.

[singalto]

Hi. Do the DVDs have to be in cases? Thanks.

[Veolia Southwark]

No they don't :-)

[singalto]

Brilliant, thank you. When are you next in DKH Sainsbury's?

[Veolia Southwark]

All the dates are available here: http://beta.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/recycling/recycling-centres/mobile-recycling-centre

:-)