Food Waste Collection
The food waste collection service is currently available to around 70,000 properties in Haringey, as part of the weekly recycling service (which also includes green box and garden waste collections).
Food waste is collected at the same time as your other recycling. To find out your collection day, please use the search function on the Veolia Haringey website (external link), or contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre using the details below.
If you live in a property with this service then you should have received two bins for the food waste collection, as shown in the pictures below. If you have not received these then please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre to request them:
Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk
Please use the following links for more information:
- How to recycle your food waste
- Plastic bags
- Compostable liners for kitchen caddies
- How to order food waste boxes
- What you can recycle
- Collecting the food waste
- What will happen to your food waste
- Composting at home.
How to recycle your food waste
The smaller black kitchen caddy is designed to go on your kitchen worktop for easy storage of your food waste. When this is full, simply empty it into the larger green container. All food should be removed from its packaging before being put out for collection. You can put food waste straight into your kitchen caddy, or if you wish you can use an approved compostable liner. For more information please see the compostable liners page. Please do not use compostable liners that are larger than 10 litres in capacity.
The larger food waste box is the container we will empty your food waste from. It has a lockable lid, which means that you can store it outside during the week. Simply close the lid of the box tight, and then move the handle so that it is at the front of the container, and to open it again simply move the handle over to the back.
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Plastic bags
We cannot collect plastic bags with the food waste, so please do not use them.
If you put your food waste into plastic bags it will not be collected.
You may wish to use compostable liners, more information on which can be found below.
|Back to topCompostable liners
Residents can use a number of types of approved compostable liners to help with recycling their food waste. The liners are designed to be used inside the kitchen caddy, as shown in the picture above, and when the liner is full it can simply be tied up and put into the larger food waste box ready for collection.
All compostable liners that display the European Bioplastics logo (shown here) can be used on the food waste service. For more information please see the compostable liners page.
Please note that you do not have to use a compostable liner to recycle your food waste, so you may put your kitchen scraps into your containers without a liner if you wish. However, no other type of bag or liner should be used.
How to order food waste boxes
The food waste collection service is available to houses (or flats within houses) that have a front garden, where green box recycling collections are already provided.
To order new or additional food waste boxes, please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre to request them:
Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk
Please remember to state whether you need a kitchen caddy or the outdoor food box (or both).
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You can recycle the following items of food, please remove the food from any packaging before putting it in your bin. Please do not put any plastic bags in this bin. Plastic bags, even those labelled ‘biodegradable’, will not compost as quickly as the food waste itself.
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All items of cooked and uncooked food waste including:
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This information is also available to download in the 'What To Recycle' document, in the attached files section below.
|Back to topCollecting your food waste
Food waste is collected at the same time as your other recycling. To find out your collection day, please use the search function on the Veolia Haringey website (external link), or contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre using the details below.
Please put your large green food waste box out at the edge of your property, as near to your front gate as possible, the night before your collection is due. Please make sure your bin is locked (put the handle forward) when you put it out.
Please do not put the smaller black container outside, as it is designed only for indoor use. If you do not have a large food waste box then please contact the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre to request them:
Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: enquiries.haringey@veolia.co.uk
What will happen to your food waste
The food waste is mixed with garden waste and is taken to an in-vessel composting plant in Edmonton. At this special facility all of the food waste is put into a closed container known as a vessel. It is heated to over 70 degrees Celsius and composted for at least 100 days. After this process is complete the resulting compost can be used as a soil improver on agricultural land or in local parks. For more information, please see the organic recycling section on the what happens to recycling page.
It is important that this compost is of good quality, and the operators of the composting plant check what is being delivered by Haringey Council and other boroughs. If there is any type of contamination (such as plastic bags) in the material put into the food waste bins by residents, all the food and garden waste collected in that vehicle could get rejected at the composting plant.
|Back to topComposting at home
If you don’t receive the food waste collection service, or you would prefer to compost your fruit and vegetable scraps at home, please see our home composting page for more information.
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