Does Southwark collect fridges/freezers as part of bulky waste collection?

[The Minkey]

Does Southwark collect fridges/freezers as part of bulky waste collection? Hard to tell from their website.

[ed_pete]

Dunno but if it works you could donate to the British Heart Foundation on Old Kent Road - they will collect.

[Mustard]

They collected a small fridge from me about 5 years ago. Why not phone them to double check.

[The Minkey]

The fridge's thermosat has gone and the freezer sounds like a animal in distress. Besides which, even if new parts could be obtained, the way they were installed, or rather the way the flooring was installed butting up tight in front of their feet means I may have to cut the legs down to get them out from under the counter :-(

As for calling Southwark, brilliant idea. Lol, I've got Saturday on the brain.

[intexasatthe moment]

Southwark's free bulky collection is fantastic and yes they take freezers ,fridges etc .

You can arrange on line

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200084/recycling_and_waste/1667/bulky_waste_collection

[The Minkey]

Thanks, I did check, it really is a fantastic service. Something like 14 items a month! When I lived in Lambeth, many moons ago admittedly, it was 8 items per year and I thought that was great. Compare that to where my folks live in Wales where they have to pay to have something like a fridge collected.

The one area Southwark seems to neglect is collection of small recyclable items like kettles, phones etc. The advice is always to take them down to the depot but if you aren't very mobile, that can be problematic. I'm sure a lot of that type of stuff must end up in landfill. I may try booking a few such items with the collection of the fridge and freezer..

[ruffers]

In my experience leaving small electrical things outside by the pavement results in them being taken away within a couple of hours.

[The Minkey]

Yes, it's a great way to recycle and I always do that for things that still work. The things still knocking around my house are the things that don't.

[ruffers]

Try it with broken things, they'll go just as quick!

[Vik]

Love Southwark's bulk refuse service, though we put a washing machine and dryer out a few weeks back and they were gone before Southwark got a chance, one man's trash and all that.

[Andrew1011]

The Minkey Wrote:

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> The one area Southwark seems to neglect is

> collection of small recyclable items like kettles,

> phones etc.

Yes, it is strange they don't collect those things but there is a receptacle for smallish electrical items at the Sainsbury's recycling centre.

[The Minkey]

Haha, I'm sure they do but when whoever picks it up finds out it doesn't work, they'll bin it most likely. In which case I might as well cut out the middleman and bin it myself, but that's missing the point, lol..

[Sue]

Vik Wrote:

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> put a washing machine and dryer out a few weeks

> back and they were gone before Southwark got a

> chance, one man's trash and all that.

There are people constantly cruising the area looking for scrap metal. There was a thread on it fairly recently.

It's irrelevant whether the stuff works or not because they just want it for the value of the metal.