Street cleaning

Street cleaning is contracted out to Islington Cleansing Services Ltd (ICSL), a company which Islington Council also uses throughout the borough. ICSL provides road sweeping once a week and empties the communal litter bins. They also empty the drain gullies twice a year.

APMC has a contract with a gardening company to maintain the grass verges, the island at the main entrance to Aberdeen Park, the rain gardens and other vegetation.

Refuse & recycling collections

Refuse and recycling collections are also undertaken by ICSL, but are paid for through the Council Tax and are the responsibility of Islington Council - APMC is not involved in this. For more information go to the Islington Council website.

As of 2024 the collection day for both rubbish and recycling is Thursday.  

ICSL will also collect large items, for example old furniture, on other days during the week if asked to do so. There is a charge for this service. In addition, the Council runs a Household Reuse & Recycling Centre, the entrance to which is in Hornsey Street, off Holloway Road near the Holloway Road Underground station. Again the Islington Council website has further details of these services.  

If you see an issue with street cleaning such as overflowing bins or rubbish that has been dumped please report this to Islington Council using the Love Clean Streets app which can be found by following this link

APMC Skip

As an extra service, APMC provides a skip every quarter, which is placed at different points around the Park. The quarterly skip will arrive on the first Friday in each of February, May, August, November and is normally collected the following Monday. The skip is intended for big items, large amounts of garden waste and so on. Please do not fill it up with builder’s waste. That takes up a lot of space – even in a skip! Contractors should dispose of builder’s waste themselves.

Private skips

If you need to bring in your own skip, please follow the guidelines below. Please note that skips should only be used when undertaking work on your own residence in Aberdeen Park and not for any other purpose.

  1. Email Tadeusz (tagielas@gmail.com) at least one week before you intend the skip to be put in place, requesting permission for placing the skip outside the relevant premises

  2. Damage to the road surface, pathways, grass verges etc., is the responsibility of the occupant of the premises for which the skip has been requested, and they must bear all costs associated with any repairs deemed to be necessary. To minimise the risk of damaging the road surface, we require skips to be placed on a layer of timber (e.g. timber planks or boards) for the entire period that the skip is located in Aberdeen Park. These boards or planks should be placed in such a way as to be clearly visible. We also require contractors/builders to place boards over any grass verges that they are crossing with barrows or other heavy equipment that damage the grass.

  3. Skips must not be overloaded, thereby allowing rubbish to fall off into the roadway pathway.

  4. Skips must be removed as soon as full and replaced or removed completely.

  5. Where possible, a cover must be placed over the skip to alleviate unnecessary dumping by unknown persons.

  6. Email or send a note to Tadeusz when skip is no longer required so an inspection may be carried out for any damage or reinstatement works that need to be carried out by APMC.