Hertsmere bin collection days
Find out when Hertsmere Borough Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.
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 Hertsmere bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Hertsmere
Hertsmere Borough Council collects:
- Refuse
- Recycling
- Food
- Green bin
From the collections we've found for homes in Hertsmere. Your street may have a different mix of bins.
Many councils charge for garden waste collections, so they only show for homes that have signed up. Check Hertsmere Borough Council's website to find out about garden waste.
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 Hertsmere Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Hertsmere, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
Hertsmere Borough Council's website takes a while to check, so your first search can take up to 30 seconds. After that, your collection days appear straight away.
Areas covered
In Hertsmere, your bins are collected by Hertsmere Borough Council, not Hertfordshire County Council.
Hertsmere Borough Council collects household bins across its 16 wards in the East of England:
- Aldenham East
- Aldenham West
- Bentley Heath & The Royds
- Borehamwood Brookmeadow
- Borehamwood Cowley Hill
- Borehamwood Hillside
- Borehamwood Kenilworth
- Bushey Heath
- Bushey North
- Bushey Park
- Bushey St James
- Elstree
- Potters Bar Furzefield
- Potters Bar Oakmere
- Potters Bar Parkfield
- Shenley
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.