Recycling - Bags and Containers

Door to door recycling

Houses - If you live in a house with a front garden we will provide you with a black box for mixed recyclables (paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, food & drink cans and aerosols) and a green box for compostable waste (garden waste, uncooked fruit and vegetables).
The black and green boxes are emptied weekly from the boundary of your property; on the same day that your general refuse is collected.Please place boxes out by 7 am on your collection day.
(This service operates Monday to Friday generally between the hours of 7am and 4 pm).
Flats & Maisonettes – If you live in a block of flats or a maisonette we will provide you with large communal bins for recycling mixed recyclables (paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, food & drink cans and aerosols). Each property also receives a FREE reusable blue bag in which to carry your recyclables to the bin.
(The communal recycling bins for flats and maisonettes are emptied weekly).

Enfield Council collects a variety of material to be recycled. However there are also many items, which cannot currently be recycled. If non-recyclable materials are put into the recycling boxes/bins they cause lots of problems as the recyclable material is mechanically sorted before being made into new items. Therefore please only put YES PLEASE items into your black box/community recycling bin. See below the items that can and can’t be collected for recycling…………

In your black box or community recycling bin:

Yes please
√ Glass bottles & Jars
√ Plastic bottles (please squash and remove lids)
√ Cardboard (please flatten)
√ Paper
√ Food & drink cans
√ Aerosols (all empty household aerosols)
All food cans, bottles & cardboard need to be cleaned out, dry & free of food.

No thanks (please put these items in your rubbish bag/communal rubbish bin)
x Window glass
x Plastic packaging/tubes/trays/bags
x Juice cartons (tetra paks)
x Dirty food boxes + tissues
x Food tins + foil
x Industrial Aerosols

If you live in a houses with a front garden you can also recycle compostable waste

yes please (In your green box)
√ Uncooked fruit & vegetables
√ Used tea bags & coffee grounds
√ Flowers
√ Household plants

no thanks
x No soil or plant pots
x No meat, fish or other food waste
x No plastic wrapping

Compostable garden waste can be put in untied sacks & placed by the side of your green box.

Yes please
√ Small branches & twigs
√ Leaves
√ Grass cuttings
√ Plant & hedge clippings

No thanks
x No treated wood, fence panels, hard board or other types of wood.
x No turf/soil/rubble

If you would like to compost your garden waste at home, please click here

Eligibility

Resident of the London Borough of Enfield.

Required Customer Information
None.

Service Level Agreement and Turnaround
We will collect waste weekly, where collections are missed for any reason we will return and rectify within 24 hours.

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Address:
Civic Centre
Silver Street
Enfield
EN1 3XY
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Telephone:
020 8379 1000

Fax:
020 8379 1777

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Opening Hours:
24 Hours

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