St Albans bin collection days
Find out when St Albans City and District 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 St Albans bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in St Albans
St Albans City and District Council collects:
- Collect domestic recycling
- Collect domestic food
From the collections we've found for homes in St Albans. 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 St Albans City and District 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 St Albans City and District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in St Albans, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
In St Albans, your bins are collected by St Albans City and District Council, not Hertfordshire County Council.
St Albans City and District Council collects household bins across its 20 wards in the East of England:
- Batchwood
- Bernards Heath
- Clarence
- Colney Heath
- Cunningham
- Harpenden East
- Harpenden North & Rural
- Harpenden South
- Harpenden West
- Hill End
- London Colney
- Marshalswick East & Jersey Farm
- Marshalswick West
- Park Street
- Redbourn
- Sandridge & Wheathampstead
- Sopwell
- St Peters
- St Stephen
- Verulam
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.