News - Category: Recycling

03/01/2018 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

50p off coffee at Pret if you’re ready to recycle

Delighted to report that Pret a Manger have doubled their usual discount for customers taking in recycled coffee cups for their daily brew. It’s all about changing people’s coffee habits – as it’s now estimated that the UK throws away…

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24/01/2017 in angel.london Cleaner Council Recycling

Angel Ambassadors

We’ve had calls already – do the new evening recycling times mean you won’t see anything of the popular recycling boys?  Not a bit of it – in fact, you’ll see more of Rhys, Damion, Sam and Ash. By negotiating…

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08/02/2016 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

B**P!

If you’re startled by a noise in the street that isn’t quite table etiquette, you could be next to one of our new Belly Bins announcing it’s full – and hassling the waste team to come and empty it. By…

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11/05/2016 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

BETTER AIR

We’ve already made great progress towards cleaner air – by signing up 270 BID businesses to our Angel-wide free recycling we’re reducing waste-related traffic by six lorries a day. That means less pollution and less congestion. We are keeping an…

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11/12/2023 in Brighter Cleaner Council Recycling

BID services over Christmas and New Year

This year the BID offices will be closed from Friday, December 22, to Tuesday, January 2, 2024. You may wish to make a note of the following services available to you over Christmas and the New Year: Recycling services will be available…

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19/12/2022 in angel.london Cleaner Council Environment Recycling

Business collection and recycling services – Christmas and New Year duty schedule

The collection and recycling services provided by angel.london will continue over the festive period. Our team will be working on the 23rd, 28th, 29th and 30th December. The team will continue to undertake their bespoke collection services and will deliver…

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17/12/2021 in angel.london Business Cleaner Council Recycling Uncategorised

Business waste and collection and recycling – Christmas and New Year schedules

The collection and recycling services provided by angel.london will continue over the festive period. Our team will be working on the 24th, 29th, 30th and 31st December. The team will continue to undertake their bespoke collection services and will deliver bags and stickers (requests MUST be made…

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12/12/2018 in angel.london Cleaner Council Recycling Uncategorised

CLEANER – angel.london collection and recycling services over the Christmas period

The business waste collections and recycling services provided by angel.london will continue over the festive period. Our recycling team will be working every day over the Christmas period with the exception of Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The team will…

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16/05/2019 in Cleaner Council Environment Food & Drink Recycling Uncategorised

CLEANER – New fresh drinking water fountain on Islington Green

As part of the Mayor of London’s Drinking Fountain Fund, our very own Islington Green has got a brand new free fresh water fountain. The new fountain (although to be honest its more of a fresh water dispenser than a fountain) is…

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16/01/2019 in angel.london Cleaner Environment Recycling Uncategorised

CLEANER – Planning a spring clean? Don’t forget our FREE recycling services

If you’re planning to have a clear-out of your office, store cupboards, or even kitchen, don’t forget that angel.london offers seven different recycling services for FREE! The ‘magnificent seven’ as we like to call them cover paper, cardboard, coffee grounds,…

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19/04/2018 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling Uncategorised

CLEANER – The three new ‘C’s of our recycling: Coffee, Cups and Cutlery!!

The harm that disposable drinking vessels are doing to our planet is BIG news at the moment and the difficulties in recycling single-use coffee cups regularly hit the headlines.  Well, here at angel.london we are always looking at ways we…

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06/06/2018 in angel.london Cleaner Council Recycling Uncategorised

CLEANER – Working collectively to manage our collective waste!

Yesterday we hosted our monthly meeting with Islington’s waste management team.  At these vital meetings, attended by both senior managers and the on-street cleaners themselves, we  are able to discuss a whole range of matters relating to street cleanliness, rubbish…

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21/03/2018 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

CLEANER – Easter Bank Holiday doesn’t affect our recycling services

As many businesses know angel.london offers a range of FREE recycling services from paper & cardboard to coffee grounds. Well, in case you were wondering, we can proudly confirm that the upcoming Easter Bank Holiday will NOT affect our services….

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22/03/2018 in Cleaner Council Recycling Uncategorised

CLEANER – New bins… No ifs, no butts!

Have you spotted the new bins that are on the streets around the BID area? Probably not… Well, the new bins started to be installed earlier this month and the programme of replacement will go on until June by which…

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26/07/2023 in ARBN Community Environment Recycling Transport

Complete business survey to help deliver a Net Zero neighbourhood

Businesses in Angel are invited to fill in a questionnaire to help inform exciting plans to create a more sustainable place to live, work and visit. The short survey, which can be found here, aims to identify the ways businesses are currently trying…

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11/05/2021 in angel.london Business Cleaner Council COVID-19 COVID-19 Recycling

Ensure your business is COVID-19 Secure

It is vital for businesses to ensure that they are COVID-19 Secure and adhering to the rules around NHS Test & Trace, service procedures and social distancing etc.  Hospitality venues check-in Since 29 March, every visitor to a hospitality venue is required to check-in…

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24/01/2017 in Cleaner Council Recycling

NEW Angel waste/recycling times

Angel waste/recycling times 6-7pm – ALL STREETS (including Upper Street) angel.london recycling & all business waste. Put our free angel.london recycling where you normally put your business waste. 12 midnight-1am UPPER STREET ONLY – angel.london recycling & all business waste….

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03/07/2017 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

Now we even collect your unwanted white goods

We’ve just added white goods to the list of things you no longer need that we can collect for free. This is in addition to the six recycling services we already offer – paper, cardboard, plastics, printer cartridges, furniture swap…

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16/11/2016 in Angel Police Team CCTV Cleaner Council Recycling

Oil can dumpers caught & fined

Selfish fly-tippers have been slapped with a £400 a fine after businesses complained to us that cans full of used cooking oil were regularly dumped behind Upper Street. Some mornings workers arrived to find 20 cans of stinking oil behind…

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31/05/2022 in Angel Police Team angel.london Business Cleaner Environment Police Recycling Safer Uncategorised

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend operational update

BUSINESS WASTE AND RECYCLING Standard business recycling services will continue over the extended bank holiday weekend, so please present your bags and stickered cardboard bundles out for collection as normal. Recycling bags & Stickers – If you require recycling bags and stickers to cover the extended bank holiday…

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12/11/2015 in Cleaner Recycling

RECYCLE IT. SAVE £££s

Are you recycling with us? There’s no excuse not to when you see the figures. Our six free recycling services are saving businesses a total of £7,000 per month. We’re filling three lorry loads a day – if everyone was…

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14/03/2017 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

RECYCLING REMINDER

New recycling Our new recycling service is a month old and we hope everyone is familiar with the evening times. Our recycling boys are going out every day checking if anyone has mistakenly put their stuff out and reminding them…

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24/01/2017 in Cleaner Council Recycling

Recycling times are changing – why and how

In order to make the streets cleaner and more accessible, Islington Council is changing the times that waste can be put out for collection across the borough.  This applies to all business waste – regardless of which contractor you use –…

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04/10/2016 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

SMART BUSINESS SAVERS

Whoever you are, whatever your business, our six free recycling services can save you money. It saves many smart businesses far more than they pay in BID levy. Here’s the proof – we’ve made all these annual savings for your…

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09/04/2018 in angel.london Brighter Council Recycling Stronger Uncategorised

STRONGER – FREE workshop for small businesses to ‘Go Green and Save Money’

Islington Sustainable Energy Partnership in partnership with Islington Council will be delivering a FREE workshop for micro and small businesses in Islington called ‘Go Green and Save Money’.  The workshop it will cover: Environmental actions that will save you the…

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15/07/2019 in Angel Police Team angel.london Brighter Business Business Design Centre CCTV Cleaner Council Entertainment Environment Events halo Recycling Research Safer Shopping Stronger Tfl Theatre Transport Uncategorised

STRONGER: Inside Angel – Summer 2019 edition published

We are delighted to publish the latest edition of ‘Inside Angel’, our quarterly publication giving businesses the lowdown on all that’s going on in the Angel. The summer 2019 edition includes a round up of activities and initiatives in the…

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05/10/2016 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

THERE’S GOOD RECYCLING, AND THERE’S THIS…

There’s good recycling, and there’s this…  ..it’s been driving us and Upper Street businesses crazy for well over a year now – who’s been regularly dumping cans of used cooking oil overnight in St Albans Place? Some mornings, several times…

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05/10/2016 in angel.london Cleaner Recycling

THREE INTO TWO

You might be wondering why you haven’t seen Damion (left) from our recycling team for a while? Well, don’t worry, he hasn’t moved on. In fact, he hasn’t moved anywhere – he’s laid up with a broken leg. Both Rhys…

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21/03/2016 in angel.london Charity Recycling Uncategorised

WE’VE GONE INTO THE FURNITURE BUSINESS

We’re delighted lots of Angel office workers will have turned up to work and found new desks, chairs and cabinets over the past few weeks, all courtesy of the Business Design Centre. The exhibition centre recently donated excellent quality but…

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