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East Hertfordshire bin collection days

Find out when East Hertfordshire District Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.

Use the postcode of your home in East Hertfordshire

Find a postcode on Royal Mail's postcode finder

This service is for homes only. Businesses usually arrange their own waste collection.

Bin day reminders

After you find your collection days, you can add them to your calendar and get a reminder the evening before. How bin day reminders work

Christmas and New Year

Find out if East Hertfordshire bin collection days change over Christmas 2026

Bins in East Hertfordshire

East Hertfordshire District Council collects:

  • Mixed recycling (Black)
  • Refuse (Purple)
  • Cardboard and paper (Blue)
  • Food waste (Caddy)
  • Garden

From the collections we've found for homes in East Hertfordshire. Your street may have a different mix of bins.

What you can recycle at home

Under the government's Simpler Recycling rules, councils in England collect these from homes:

  • Paper and card: newspapers, magazines, envelopes and cardboard boxes
  • Plastic: bottles, pots, tubs and trays
  • Metal: drinks cans, food tins, clean foil and empty aerosols
  • Glass: bottles and jars
  • Cartons: food and drinks cartons, like juice and soup cartons
  • Food waste: all food, cooked or raw, including peelings, bones, tea bags and coffee grounds, collected every week

Plastic bags and wrapping will be added by 31 March 2027. Some councils are still bringing in some of these collections.

Which bin each one goes in depends on your council. Check East Hertfordshire District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.

What you'll need

To find your bin days in East Hertfordshire, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.

Areas covered

In East Hertfordshire, your bins are collected by East Hertfordshire District Council, not Hertfordshire County Council.

East Hertfordshire District Council collects household bins across its 26 wards in the East of England:

  • Aston, Datchworth & Walkern
  • Bishop's Stortford All Saints
  • Bishop's Stortford Central
  • Bishop's Stortford North
  • Bishop's Stortford Parsonage
  • Bishop's Stortford South
  • Bishop's Stortford Thorley Manor
  • Braughing & Standon
  • Buntingford
  • Great Amwell & Stansteads
  • Hertford Bengeo
  • Hertford Castle
  • Hertford Heath & Brickendon
  • Hertford Kingsmead
  • Hertford Rural
  • Hertford Sele
  • Hunsdon
  • Little Hadham & The Pelhams
  • Much Hadham
  • Sawbridgeworth
  • The Mundens
  • Ware Priory
  • Ware Rural
  • Ware St Mary's
  • Ware Trinity
  • Watton-at-Stone

Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.

See all the councils we cover