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Barnet Council is asking for the views of residents on plans to introduce an annual charge for the fortnightly collection of household garden waste.

Some six or seven years ago the Barnet Society was solidly involved in the early public discussion and consultation on this project.  Now, after a hiatus arising largely from the difficulty of finding common ground and community concern, particularly against the possible use of a site at Pinkham Way, the project is again under way, and has clearly benefitted from wide input in the interval.

New recycling service: an eyewitness report from a Barnet Society member. High Barnet householders have been told they should become their own recycling monitors and report back to Barnet Council on the efficiency of the new service for collecting recyclable refuse.

As part of the preparations to deliver Barnet’s new waste and recycling service, Barnet Council will be training all waste service collection staff in the week beginning the 7 October.  A Press Release from Barnet Council stated today. This means that residents will not have their recycling collected during this week while staff members get prepared for the new recycling service which starts on the 14 October.

Barnet residents are about to face what looks like becoming a game of musical chairs among the wheelie bins and containers which proliferate in the frontages of houses and flats across the borough. Out go the black and blue recycling boxes . . . to be replaced as from October 14 by a blue wheelie bin for all recyclable material.  

North London’s much-troubled plan for handling municipal rubbish and waste is out for consultations once again.