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Haringey 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 Haringey
These are the containers used in Haringey. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Communal Refuse
or or or Recycling
Green-lidded wheelie bin, or fully green wheelie bin, or green recycling sack, or large black communal recycling wheelie bin
Communal Recycling
Food waste
Green outdoor food waste bin
Communal Food
Garden Waste
Container details
The container pictures and words are Haringey 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.
- Recycling: Households using a green-lidded recycling wheelie bin
- Recycling: Households using a fully green recycling wheelie bin
- Recycling: Households using recycling sacks
- Recycling: Households sharing a communal recycling bin
- Food waste: Kerbside properties
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Haringey Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Order green recycling sacksHaringey Borough Council
- On-street waste boxes for homes above shopsHaringey Borough Council
- When and where to put your bins outHaringey Borough Council
- Order a new food waste binHaringey Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemHaringey Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsHaringey Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Haringey 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 Haringey 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 Haringey 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 Haringey compares
- Recycled or composted
- 29%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 514 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £49per household a year. Similar councils: £71
- Value for money
- 9 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 17 September 2026.
Haringey has agreed changes from 2027: kerbside rubbish bins will shrink from 240 to 180 litres, with exceptions; garden waste will be collected fortnightly instead of weekly; and weekly food waste collections will cover all properties. The new waste contract was confirmed in June 2026.
During the earlier service review, councillors asked whether smaller bins would increase fly-tipping. The council said it had found no evidence linking smaller household bins to more fly-tipping. It also said garden recycling rates were not significantly affected by fortnightly collections, which would mean fewer collection vehicle journeys.
- Agenda item - Waste & Street Cleansing Service Review — www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk
- Veolia Waste Contract award for 2027 for Housing Estates — www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk