We are proposing changes to the collections for household rubbish and recycling from properties with a wheeled bin. Since 2010 Enfield Council has made savings of £178million due to Government spending cuts and ... your mixed food and garden waste (green-lid bin) fortnightly. From 2 March 2020, your rubbish bin (grey lidded) and recycling bin (blue lidded) will be collected alternate weekly, instead of every week. Recycling food scraps increases resource recovery, reduces waste to … Enfield council currently runs its weekly collections of wheeled bins in-house, with a blue lidded bin for dry commingled recyclables, a green lidded bin for garden and food waste and a grey lidded bin for general waste. The small brown bins for food waste were delivered to households in November 2019. The bin collections in Enfield have changed and it’s hard to find a voice that supports this decision. Hundreds of people have been affected by missed brown bin collections since Enfield Council’s new food waste service began in November. Fortunately, Enfield Council has published its Christmas bin collection dates on it's website. Your food waste will be collected by a different vehicle and at a different time of the day. The council leader said: “We delivered a resilient budget that was fair, that looked after the most vulnerable people in this borough, and I am proud to say we will be sticking by our original decision on waste collections.” Alongside the move to fortnightly bin rounds, Enfield Council will introduce a weekly food waste collection service. Food scraps placed in the green organics bin will be composted by Jeffries and turned into compost and mulch. The council also have a Christmas tree recycling service - we tell you what to do with that rather sorry looking real Christmas tree you were once so proud of below too. A 2015 bin audit found 47% of material in the waste bin were food scraps or uneaten food. Report by James Cracknell. Enfield Council Green bin collection service changes agreed Posted on 20 October 2016 Enfield residents’ green bin and food collection service will continue to be collected free of charge, but from next April the service will go fortnightly, after the Council’s Cabinet agreed last night (19 October) to the cost-cutting proposal. The food waste will be collected weekly on the same day as your household waste and recycling bins. Port Adelaide Enfield supplies residential premises with a kitchen caddy and compostable bags to make it easy for residents to divert food scraps into the green lid bin. The garden waste service is for domestic garden waste only, no trade waste is accepted. And just so you have it written down in more than one place, we list them below. The government wants all English councils to provide a weekly collection of food waste by 2023, claiming authorities would be given funding "to meet new rising costs" of the target. Place your outside food waste bin at the edge of your property with your household waste or recycling bin by 6am. Approximately 40% of household waste is food representing the best opportunity to reduce landfill. Organic food and garden waste, meanwhile, will be bulked at Edmonton but processed at the company’s Ufton composting unit. One brown 240 litre recycling bin for the collection of organic garden and food waste One purple 140 litre recycling bin for the collection of glass bottles and jars Additional or replacement 140 litre / 240 litre sized recycling bins are supplied at no cost. To search for your collection day, enter your postcode or street name in the box below and select the correct address from the drop-down menu. The service is subject to an annual charge which covers the collection period from 1 February to 31 January.