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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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Plastic

See below for lists of plastic items you can or can't recycle.

What you can't recycle from home

You can't put these plastics in your recycling container - they must go in the same bin as your rubbish:

  • Bio-degradable and degradable bags
  • Black sacks
  • Blister packs
  • Bubble Wrap
  • CD and DVD cases
  • Cellophane
  • Foil balloons
  • Foil-lined packets (sweet wrappers and crisp packets)
  • Laminated paper
  • Plastic coat hangers
  • Plastic film wrap (also known as flexible wrapping or soft plastic wrap which is used to wrap bread, fresh salad, dried foods and microwave meals)
  • Plastic flower pots
  • Plastic storage boxes
  • Polystyrene/styrofoam (packaging trays, beads and disposable coffee cups)
  • Toothpaste tubes
  • Tupperware containers
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