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Christmas and new year opening times and services

Find out our opening times and service changes over Christmas and New Year holidays. This includes changes to bin collection days, parking and customer contact centre opening hours.

Islington Town Hall will be closed from Thursday 2 to Monday 6 January 2025 for planned maintenance. Registrar services will be reopen on Monday 6 January 2025.

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Special rates for charities and places of worship

We can provide free recycling and low-cost waste collections to charities and places of worship.

Places of worship and charities

We provide weekly free recycling and subsidised waste collections to charities and places of worship.

What we collect 

We collect:

  • dry mixed recycling
  • food waste.

We will charge for:

  • the collection of dry mixed or food recycling if it is produced from commercial activities, such as charged events
  • any necessary extra collections.

When we collect

Collections take place weekly or nightly. Please contact CommercialWaste@islington.gov.uk for more information.

What we provide

We give you:

  • free green recycling boxes 
  • free clear sacks (where there is no front storage for green recycling boxes)
  • food waste containers
  • compostable liners.

Sign up for our services

If you are interested in our recycling and waste collection service, please email CommercialWaste@islington.gov.uk to discuss your requirements.

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