Food and garden waste
Your green bin is collected every fortnight on the same day as your brown bin.

What to put in

  • Food
  • Leftovers
  • Raw/cooked meat or fish
  • Vegetable peelings
  • Bones/shells
  • Tea bags/coffee shells
  • Garden waste
  • Leaves and twigs (up to 6 inch diameter)
  • Grass/hedge cuttings
  • Dead flowers

Items to keep out

  • Paper (including paper towels, tissues, cotton wool, make-up pads and wet wipes)
  • Cardboard
  • Brown paper/envelopes
  • Treated wood
  • Plastic packaging
  • Biodegradable bags or compostable wrapping
  • Any other packaging that says it is compostable, e.g. Vegware
  • Soil/turf
  • Dog poo or cat litter
  • Nappies (disposable or compostable)

Kitchen caddies, compostable liners and garden waste sacks

Kitchen caddies are available free so you can collect food waste in your kitchen before putting it in your green bin.

You can line your caddy with newspaper or compostable liners(see below for where to purchase).

Garden waste sacks are for additional garden waste and you can put up to three sacks out alongside your green bin on collection day.

Where can I get a free kitchen caddy?

Kitchen caddy for food waste

 

 

 

As an alternative you can use any other similar container to store your food waste, e.g. an ice cream tub or Tupperware container.

Kitchen caddies are available at the following locations: 

  • Aldenham Parish Council, The Radlett Centre, Aldenham Ave, Radlett, WD7 8HL 
  • Civic Office, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 1WA 
  • 96 Shenley Road, Borehamwood, WD6 1EB
  • Bushey area office, Citizens Advice Bureau, Rudolph Road, WD23 3DU  CURRENTLY CLOSED
  • The Wyllyotts Theatre, Darkes Lane, EN6 2HN

Where can I buy compostable liners and garden waste sacks?

Roll of compostable bags and garden waste sack

Compostable caddy liners can be purchased from any of our outlets below at the cost of £2.80 for a roll of 52 bags. Alternatively supermarket stocked caddy liners are also accepted but they must carry the EN13432 certified seedling logo shown below and be labelled as compostable. Please note we will only accept caddy sized liners, not larger compostable carrier bags (such as those from the Co-op.)

seedling logo

 

 

Garden waste sacks cost 70p each. You can buy both compostable liners and garden waste sacks from the following locations:

  • Aldenham Parish Council, The Radlett Centre, Aldenham Ave, Radlett, WD7 8HL 
  • The Venue, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 1JY
  • 96 Shenley Road, Borehamwood, WD6 1EB
  • Bushey Grove Leisure Centre, Aldenham Road, Bushey, WD7 8HL
  • The Wyllyotts Theatre, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 2HN
  • Furzefield Leisure Centre, Mutton Lane, EN6 3BW

Composting at home

For more information about composting at home and reduced price composters please see our county-wide information on Composting.