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Enfield 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 Enfield
These are the containers used in Enfield. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Empty Bin Recycling 240
Empty Bin 23L Food Caddy
Container details
The container pictures and words are Enfield 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.
Container descriptions checked 18 September 2026; list of collections built from Enfield Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Replacement bins, sacks and extra food waste caddiesEnfield Borough Council
- When and where to put your bins outEnfield Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsEnfield Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsEnfield Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemEnfield Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsEnfield Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outEnfield Borough Council
Links checked 18 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Enfield Borough Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
- Make a complaint to Enfield 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 Enfield Borough Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 6 September 2026.
How Enfield compares
- Recycled or composted
- 33%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 550 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £64per household a year. Similar councils: £68
- Value for money
- 6 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.
Enfield’s falling recycling rate became an election issue in May 2026. The Enfield Dispatch reported that household recycling fell to 32.9% in 2024/25, down from 34.2% two years earlier. The council, ranked 14th among London’s 32 boroughs, blamed increased contamination and said food-waste trials had improved collections by 30% while halving contamination. Ahead of the 7 May election, Conservatives promised weekly rubbish and recycling collections if they won power; Labour pledged weekly recycling but not weekly rubbish. The report also described plans to improve recycling and introduce food-waste services to all flats.
- Control of Enfield Civic Centre up for grabs as election looms — enfielddispatch.co.uk