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We’ve been working in partnership with Barnet Council since 2001 and our current contract runs until 2013.

We constantly strive to improve the services we deliver and launched food waste collections across Barnet during the autumn of 2010, in addition to the kerbside collection service we provide for dry recyclable materials

What can you recycle?

The materials we collect are: glass, paper, plastic bottles, cans, textiles, shoes, tin foil, Yellow Pages, cardboard, empty aerosols, car and household batteries, engine oil, mobile phones and food waste.

Our service

We provide a weekly multi-material collection service for 130,000 households including 13,000 estate and high-rise properties.

99.5% of material that Barnet residents set out on their doorstep is recycled. The majority is re-processed in the UK, ensuring the best climate change outcome from the recycling system; more than 20,000 tonnes of net carbon benefit is secured from the service.

Barnet was the first local authority to introduce a compulsory recycling policy and is on course to hit targets of 45% recycling by 2015, as a result of service improvements we have introduced.

We helped the council roll out its ‘Blue Box’ scheme which has added card and plastic bottles to the materials we collect.

We have introduced new collection vehicles with around 30 cubic metres of capacity compared to less than 18 cubic metres for the previous generation. These vehicles are designed to accommodate the increased volumes associated with cardboard and plastic collections. They have improved efficiency and minimised fuel use, maximising the carbon benefit of our recycling collection service.

We have also successfully amended our waste management licence to enable us to include baling operations at our Mill Hill Depot to increase material density. This has reduced the number of haulage trips, which has helped reduce traffic noise and congestion and is better for the environment.