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Barnet bin collection dates
- Add your dates to Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
- Get an email the evening before
- Print an A4 sheet for the fridge
Bins in Barnet
These are the containers used in Barnet. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling Bin
Food Waste
Container details
The container pictures and words are Barnet Borough Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Greyed-out bin icons are placeholders where the container type or colour is not confirmed.
List of collections built from Barnet Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Barnet Borough Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
We do not hold a verified missed-bin reporting link for Barnet Borough Council. Check the council’s official website for how to contact its collection service.
- Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
- Make a complaint to Barnet Borough CouncilIf reporting it didn't fix it.
Complaint didn't work either? Ask your councillors
If you've already reported the problem and used the council's complaints process, your borough councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my borough councillors on Barnet Borough Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 7 September 2026.
How Barnet compares
- Recycled or composted
- 28%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 637 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £66per household a year. Similar councils: £73
- Value for money
- 4 out of 10 An independently constructed WhenIsBins rating, not an official government rating.
Official figures for England, 2024 to 2025.
Local bins and recycling news
AI-generated summary, reviewed before publication. Checked 18 September 2026.
Barnet’s food-waste service returned in March 2026 after being removed in 2018. The council told the Barnet Post it had collected more than 100 tonnes weekly since April, with 17 complaints about fox-related spillages across two million collections. Separately, Barnet Live reported that a government-commissioned financial review recommended alternate-weekly bin collections as part of savings reforms. It reported that the council was considering fortnightly collections for 2027, but had not published an implementation date, consultation or decision. The recommendation therefore should not be read as a confirmed change to residents’ bin days.
- Food waste collection picks up more than 100 tonnes a week — barnetpost.co.uk
- Barnet told to review council tax and go fortnightly on bins — barnetlive.co.uk