Rubbish, waste and recycling
Rubbish and waste
- Refuse collection service.
- Neighbourhood skip service.
- Special collections service - for a set fee the council will collect large household items.
Waste prevention and recycling
Barnet Green Thing - Use it up
Barnet Council has teamed up with non-profit environmental site ‘Green Thing’ to offer inspiring videos and helpful, entertaining tips on reducing your waste. Watch brilliant award-winning videos, and read stories and comments from other people in the Barnet area. Sign up at www.dothegreenthing.com/useitup
East Barnet Festival
The council's Waste and Sustainability Team will be hosting a stall at the East Barnet Festival on Saturday 4 July. Please come and visit us for information or queries about waste prevention, composting, real nappies, food waste and recycling in Barnet.
Our services
- Recycle from home service (blue and black boxes)
- Flats recycling service
- Green garden and kitchen waste collection service.*
* now includes the collection of food waste (except bones) - Civic Amenity and Recycling Centre - Barnet's household waste disposal site at Summers Lane. At this centre you can recycle over 40 different materials
- Bring banks - conveniently located recycling collection sites
- Recycling in schools
- What happens to your recycling - find out what becomes of the items that we collect for recycling
- Waste prevention - Use real nappies, reduce your junk mail, Compost at Home, reduce your food waste , get smart shopping. and take a recycling pledge
- Business recycling
- Information for developers and architects
With the amount of rubbish we throw away steadily rising and the amount of landfill space, where this rubbish is disposed of, steadily falling, it has never been more important to reduce, reuse and recycle.
The more waste that we dispose of, the more we have to pay. So, by cutting down on waste we will save money as well as help the environment. So please try to reduce, reuse and recycle as much of your waste as you can using the services listed above.
Email this pageLast modified by: Rachel Jones on 01/07/2009