Mobile Recycling Centre @ Sainsbury's Dog Kennel Hill

[Veolia Southwark]

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

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

>Small electrical appliances

>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 single-use garden waste sacks, clear recycling sacks and sells 'Pro Grow' soil conditioner plus subsidised compost bins and wormeries.

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

[ianr]

Can someone please educate me on the recycling of clothes and shoes bit. I hope it means that they will take any that are not fit for re-use, but from which they can retrieve material usefully (as eg with shoddy). Is that the case?

[Veolia Southwark]

Hi IanR and thank you for your message.

All textiles brought to the Mobile Recycling Centre are placed into the charity banks at the Southwark Reuse and Recycling Centre. Whatever the charities cannot then resell in their shops is separated out, shredded and recycled into other textile products such as cleaning cloths.