Help shape Hertfordshire’s future – have your say on changes to local government

Our communities are in the best place to tell us what’s important to them, so your voice matters. Join us at our resident engagement event in Hertsmere on Monday 8 September from 6pm to 8pm at the Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 1WA.

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Garden Waste Collection Service

We only collect from households that have subscribed to the Garden Waste Collection Service and present a sticker on their green bin.

Click the button below to pay for your April 2025 - March 2026 subscription. The charge is £50.

Pay for your Garden Waste Subscription
Back of green wheelie bin showing subscription sticker below handle

If you have signed up to the garden waste collection your green bin will be collected fortnightly on the same day as your brown recycling bin. To make our rounds more efficient you may have seen a change to your collection day from 7 April 2025. You should have received information about this in a collection calendar delivered with your new silver food bin or you can check via our bin collection day finder.

FAQs

Food waste

  • Food waste should go in your new silver food waste bin and your green bin is now for garden waste only. Some properties won't receive a silver food waste bin until later in the year. If this is the case, please put your food waste in your black refuse bin.

What to put in your green bin

  • Grass and hedge cuttings
  • Small tree prunings, twigs and bark
  • Tree branches (up to 6 inches in diameter)
  • Plants with excess soil removed
  • Moss, weeds (excluding controlled weeds such as Japanese Knotweed)
  • Real Christmas trees (cut up)
  • Flowers
  • Leaves

Items to keep out of your green bin

  • Food waste
  • Paper (including paper towels, tissues, cotton wool, make-up pads and wet wipes)
  • Cardboard
  • Brown paper/envelopes/shredded paper
  • Treated wood, e.g. baskets, fence panels, furniture
  • Soil/turf
  • Dog poo or cat litter
  • Plastic packaging
  • Any packaging that says it is compostable
Read more about compostable plastics