The ‘No Need To Stress, Your Black Bin Needs Less’ features practical, interactive information on how to recycle more, as well as mobile phone game, the Recycle Rumble, which is particularly designed for younger people with the aim of getting them in the habit of wasting less early.
Under the changes in Lambeth, which started in April, recycling collections, via green wheelie bins and food waste bin collections, remain weekly. Black bins for non-recyclable waste are emptied fortnightly.
Cllr Rezina Chowdhury, Lambeth’s Deputy Leader (Sustainable Lambeth and Clean Air), said: “We are ambitious for our borough and determined that by working together we can cut waste, boost recycling, re-use more and save money.
“We want to increase recycling rates in Lambeth to 50 per cent by 2030 and I’m confident that through this campaign, and by working together, we can achieve that aim. There are so many ways of recycling now in Lambeth that I’m sure we can do this.”
There are six recycling services available locally – which cover general recyclables, food waste, small electricals and batteries, Emmaus reusable bulky item collections, Lambeth Recycling Centres and garden waste.
The No Need To Stress, Your Black Bin Needs Less gives residents the tools and knowledge to separate their waste in the best possible way so less goes into black bins and more into recycling.
The campaign is being shared on the social media, including Facebook, X and Instagram, along with bus stop adverts around the borough. All posts link to the Recycling Rumble game that runs through where to recycle and features a race to the top of the leaderboard.
Take part by visiting recycling-rumble.co.uk.
More than half of London boroughs have already made the fortnightly waste switch, and Lambeth used experience gained elsewhere to help make the change.
For more information on recycling services in Lambeth visit www.lambeth.gov.uk/rubbish-recycling. Collections from communal bins on estates, as well as from properties that have their rubbish collected from sacks remain weekly.
The rollout of fortnightly rubbish collection is part of Lambeth’s broader 2030 vision that is a net-zero compatible borough with reduce, re-use and recycle at its heart.
