Food Waste Collection

The food waste collection service is currently available to over 48,000 properties in Haringey.

To find out whether you can recycle your food waste, or for information about your collection day, please use our search facility by following this link - Recycling Search Facility.

If you live in an area with this service you should have received two bins for the food waste collection. These containers are shown in the two pictures below.  If you have not received these then please contact the Haringey Accord Call Centre to request them:

Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: callcentre@haringeyaccord.com

Please use the following links for more information:

• How to recycle your food waste
• Plastic bags
• Compostable liners for kitchen caddies
• What you can recycle
• Collecting the food waste
• What will happen to your food waste
• Composting at home

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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.

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.

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Compostable 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.

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What food waste you can recycle

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.

Please recycle	Please DO NOT recycle
All items of cooked and uncooked food waste including: Bread Cakes and biscuits Cheese Coffee grounds Eggs including the shell Fish (no bones) Fruit Meat (no bones) Noodles Pasta Rice Tea bags Vegetables Approved compostable liners only	Animal bedding Bones Cardboard Cooking oil Foil Hair Milk Packaging Paper Pet food Pet litter Plastic bags Plastic trays Tins Any liners or bags that do not clearly show the European Bioplastics logo

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Collecting your food waste

The collection day for your food waste is the same day as for your other recycling collections.

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 Haringey Accord Call Centre so that one can be delivered to you:

Tel: 020 8885 7700
Email: callcentre@haringeyaccord.com

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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.

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Composting 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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