Recycling - What can I recycle?
If you want to get rid of something, have it collected for free and be "green", why not try using FreeCycle.
Before you chuck your rubbish into the blue bins, please make sure you only include the items listed below.
Cans
- Soft drinks
- Alcoholic beverages
- Tinned meat
- Baked beans
- Tinned vegetables
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned fish
- Tinned pet food
- Ready meal containers
- Take away food containers
- Party platters
- Meals on wheels containers
- Kitchen foil
- Remember to wash out cans to help keep your bin clean and avoid contamination.
Cardboard
- Cereal packets
- Greetings cards
- Cardboard boxes, including corrugated cardboard
We are unable to recycle ‘waxed paper’ cartons such as fruit juice, washing liquid and milk.
Paper
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Envelopes
- Junk mail
- Telephone directories
- Catalogues
- Plastic
- Plastic bottles
- Soft drinks bottles (clear and coloured)
- Alcoholic beverage bottles (clear and coloured)
- Fruit juice
- Milk
- Cooking oils
- Laundry products
- Hair care products
- Baby care products
- Supermarket carrier bags
To give you more room in your bin it helps to squash down any plastic bottles.
Glass
All coloured glass can be mixed together.
See also : Greenwich council website
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The management team will also notify the Royal Mail but the problem will probably be rectified more quickly if complaints are received from everyone that is affected.
Note, if the link above does not work anymore, click on customer service on their main home page.
Tradesmen - The London Tradesmen's Directory
If you are looking for a tradesmen to carry out some work on your flat, then we
recommend trying The London Tradesmen’s Directory on 0906 780 8888 (premium line).
This provides a list of recommended and reliable London-based workmen from all trades.
All you pay is the price of the telephone call (about £2). It even offers a competitively
priced emergency call-out service for plumbing problems, storm damage,
lock-outs, break-ins and vandalism.
Lines are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Window Repairs
A few of the large sash windows are not opening fully or are jammed shut.
This is basically due to lack of maintenance. It maybe that the windows are
just stuck due to a paint build up. This can be overcome by placing a piece of
wood against the edge of the frame away from the glass and tapping it gently
all around the frame with a hammer.
The state of repair of your flat's sash windows is your responsibility. If the
frames have become rotten, they will need to be repaired. If not caught quickly
enough, the whole frame will need to be replaced. This has been the case on
a handful of flats.
Should you not know of a suitable repairer the following have been suggested
to us by other residents:
Greenwich Glass & Joinery
33-35 Deptford Bridge
London
SE8 4HH
Tel: 020 8694 8065
The Sash Windows Workshop Ltd
8/9 Brickfields Industrial Park
Kiln Lane
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 1NQ
Tel: 01344 86 86 68
Mobile: 07813 879 655
The Sash Window Workshop
45, Tonsley Hill
London
SW18 1BE
Tel: 0800 597 2598
Sash Smart
Acorn House
74-94 Cherry Orchard Road
Croydon, Surrey
CR9 6DA
Tel: 0845 605 6060
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