Resident refuse and recycling collections

We collect household recycling and waste once a week from all residential areas in Enfield.

Collection hours: Monday - Friday, 7am - 4pm

Please note that your collections can take place anytime between 7am and 4pm.

Your recycling, garden and food waste and refuse are not collected at the same time.

When necessary, we start at 6am, for example in areas that are on red routes and high-density shopping areas.

If you live in a house

• Put your recycling in your blue lidded wheeled bin and garden, food waste in your green lidded wheeled bin and refuse in your grey lidded wheeled bin
• On your collection day, leave your wheeled bins at the edge of the boundary of your property by 7am

Click here for the latest recycling newsletter for wheeled bin properties.

If you live in a flat or on an estate

• You will receive communal bin collection service where larger containers are provided
• Put your recycling and waste in these containers

If it is after 4pm on your collection day and your refuse or recycling still have not been collected please click here to report the missed collection

Bank holiday collections

Over the Christmas and New Year period refuse and recycling collections will change. In December please visit http://www.enfield.gov.uk/ for changes or look in local press for information. Collections continue as normal on all other bank holidays.