Publishers of two free dailies will pay for 64 recycling bins that will be placed across central London, it was agreed Wednesday.

Westminster City Council threatened earlier this year to ban the papers, London Lite, published by Associated Newspapers, and rival thelondonpaper, published by News International, if they did not help clean up thousands of discarded newspapers left around the city each night.

Since the free dailies were launched in August of last year, they have created an extra 1,000 tonnes of waste, the council said in April.

While the agreement took about four months, the recycling deal should go into effect in half that time, Steve Auckland, director of free newspapers at Associated, told Press Gazette. The publishers will be responsible for recycling the bins' contents, as well as collecting litter regularly.