Sutton Council have announced that all its mixed recycling centres are to close by November this year.

The next site to shut will be the bank at Tesco's Oldfields Road that will be removed from Friday, August 28.

A notice by the bank said that residents requested its removal following persistent fly tipping.

The site was a target for fly-tippers in December where Sutton Council's street cleaning waste team spent two days clearing rubbish from the site.

The closure of the centres comes amid plans outlined in the 2014 One Planet Sutton plan, which plans to increase the recycling rate to 40 per cent of all household waste it collects by 2017 across Sutton.

Last year Sutton recycled 30,563 tonnes of waste, about 37 per cent of the household waste collected.

It further expects increases in recycling to upwards of 70 per cent by 2025 and 100 per cent by 2050.

In 2013/14 Sutton was labelled as a poor performer by Eumonia's Recycling Carbon Index and came 13th out of all London boroughs.

Sutton Council also stopped providing free green garden waste collection in June and replaced it with a paid-for service.

The council is however providing free home composting bin to homes upon request.

A Sutton Council spokesman said: "Sutton Council is in the process of removing all of the mixed recycling banks from Neighbourhood Recycling Centres (NRCs) across the borough.

"In recent years the council has implemented improvements to the kerbside recycling service so that Sutton residents can recycle mixed dry recyclables from home in their green bin or flats recycling bin.

"The NRCs have attracted a large amount of fly-tipping in recent years, which is unsightly and is a cost to the taxpayer to clear up. In addition, the recycling bins were often contaminated with non-recyclable items such as food and rubble, which meant that all the material had to be sent to landfill, increasing costs to the taxpayer further.

"The removal of the mixed recycling bins has made a significant difference to the look of the areas and, as the borough’s recycling rate has been maintained despite the removal of the recycling banks, it is the council’s intention to remove the remaining recycling banks by the autumn.

"We have written to residents in the surrounding roads to the Tesco supermarket on Oldfields Road to explain why the recycling bank is being removed and offered them additional green bins for their recycling. Recycling banks for books, CDs and DVDs, and textiles and shoes will be kept nearby."