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Enfield

Your local recycling rate is...

34%

Check out how your borough recycling rate compares to others...

  • Barking & Dagenham33%
  • Barnet27%
  • Bexley44%
  • Brent33%
  • Bromley49%
  • Camden28%
  • City of London30%
  • Croydon37%
  • Ealing48%
  • Enfield34%
  • Greenwich33%
  • Hackney26%
  • Hammersmith & Fulham26%
  • Haringey27%
  • Harrow30%
  • Havering37%
  • Hillingdon37%
  • Hounslow36%
  • Islington33%
  • Kensington & Chelsea23%
  • Kingston upon Thames47%
  • Lambeth31%
  • Lewisham23%
  • Merton43%
  • Newham26%
  • Redbridge31%
  • Richmond upon Thames40%
  • Southwark32%
  • Sutton43%
  • Tower Hamlets18%
  • Waltham Forest33%
  • Wandsworth22%
  • Westminster24%

If you live in a house or a flat within a house, your service may include...

Recycling

Black wheelie bin with a blue lid | Collected every 2 weeks

Rubbish

Black wheelie bin with a grey / black lid | Collected every 2 weeks

Food waste recycling (indoors)

Small silver kitchen caddy

Food waste recycling (outdoors)

Large brown caddy | Collected once a week

Garden waste

Optional paid for bin

If you live on an estate or in a flat with communal bins, your service may include...

Recycling

Communal black bin with blue lid

Rubbish

Communal black bin with grey/black lid

Food waste recycling

Black wheelie bin with green lid

Food waste recycling

Small black housing unit

If you live in a flat above a shop your service may include...

Recycling

Blue sack | Collected weekly

Rubbish

Grey sack | Collected weekly

No food recycling

Sorry, no food waste recycling

You can recycle...

Paper

Cardboard

Food and drink cartons

Glass bottles and jars

Tins and cans

Aerosols

Plastic bottles

Plastic pots, tubs and trays

You can't recycle...

PPE

Crisp packets

Pots

Wipes and wet wipes

Polystyrene

Nappies

Garden waste

You can sign up for a paid garden waste collection. Collected once every two weeks. Black bin with green lid. 

Bulky waste

You can book a free/paid bulky waste collection (depending on item type) if you have large items you no longer want.

Useful information

Your local council website

Order new bins or sacks

Your local reuse and recycling centre

Winchmore Hill, London N21 3AU

Edmonton EcoPark, 1 Lee Park Way N18 3BJ

A-Z of recycling

You can use our A-Z search to find out if something can be recycled and how to recycle it properly.

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