Recycle from home
We operate the ‘Recycle from Home’ service throughout Barnet, collecting recyclables straight from your home on a weekly basis. Recycling has never been so simple. With Recycle from Home, you get a Black Box that you can fill with household materials such as cans, glass and paper.
What materials can you put in your Black Box?
- Glass bottles and jars*
- Newspaper, junk mail and magazines *
- Food and drink cans*
- Aerosols
- Car and household batteries
- Foil
- Mobile phones
- Shoes
- Textiles
- Engine oil
- Yellow Pages
*In Barnet it is compulsory to place these items into your black box for collection.
More details about the materials we collect can be found on the materials collected page
Please separate your waste as much as possible, so that we can collect all recyclables easily, and sort into ECT Recycling's yellow and green trucks. However, you do not need a separate box for each material.
How does the scheme work?
Leave your Black Box:
- out by 7am on your allocated collection day
- on the boundary of your property, on your allocated collection day so we can see it easily from the roadside
- away from normal refuse items
- clearly label any additional bags full of recyclables.
When is your collection day?
Where do your recyclables go?
Have you ever wondered what happens to the materials that are collected?
In Barnet, we are commited to ensuring that what we collect actually ends up being recycled and that we minimise the distance your materials have to travel before they are reprocessed. Most of the items that we collect are recycled in the UK.
You can be assured that 99.5 per cent of what you put out actually ends up being recycled because we use what is called a source separated collection system.
Put simply, source separation means items you put out for recycling are sorted on ECT’s recycling trucks before being stored separately at its recycling depot. This means that we can leave behind the items which can't be recycled, providing the reprocessors with high quality clean materials.
Your continued recycling support does make a real difference to helping halt the growing waste mountain and reducing carbon emissions. Go to the black box material destination page to see what happens to your recycling after it is collected from your house.
Assisted collection
If you are physically unable to lift your Black Box ask ECT Recycling for an assisted collection. They can agree a mutually convenient collection point with you. “Having an assisted collection has made it possible for me to recycle. The ECT men are so helpful and friendly. We always have a giggle”. Mrs Barker, West Finchley.
If you need an assisted collection please contact ECT Recycling below.
Order a Black Box
To order a Black Box please contact ECT Recycling below.
Further information
If:
- your Black Box has been missed by the collection crew
- you are filling your Black Box and need a second one free
- your Black Box has been lost, broken or stolen - we will deliver another one to you
- you need an assisted collection
Contact ECT Recycling
- Tel: 020 8371 3670 or,
- Email barnet@ectrecycling.co.uk
