The woman in her late 20s was hit by the vehicle whilst cycling on Duke Street Hill at the junction with London Bridge Walk at around 7.30am.
She was taken to a hospital in central London with non-life threatening injuries, a spokesman for Scotland Yard confirmed.
The driver of the lorry stopped at the scene and was not arrested.
The 18-tonne Hyva skip loader is understood to be owned by London-based skip hire firm Toulouse.
Based in Greenwich, Toulouse operates a fleet of skip lorries, providing recycling and skip hire services as well as a tipper and grab service.
Its website states that all drivers are “trained to NVQ standard”. The skip loader involved in the incident is also shown to have visible cycling safety livery.
Cyclists
The collision is the latest in a number of similar incidents in the capital involving cyclists and waste industry vehicles.
In April last year, a cyclist was killed in a collision with a heavy goods vehicle belonging to demolition and construction waste firm Squibb Group.
And in July, a cyclist died following a collision with an unbranded refuse vehicle in Richmond, West London.
In March 2015, the Mayor’s Office welcomed the cooperation of waste and recycling operators to cut down on accidents through the mandatory fitting of sideguards on all HGVs weighing over 3.5 tonnes from September (see letsrecycle.com story).
When contacted by letsrecycle.com, Toulouse could not be reached for comment.
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