Three Rivers bin collection days
Find out when Three Rivers 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 Three Rivers bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Three Rivers
Three Rivers District Council collects:
- 140 refuse
- 240 recycling
- Food pod
- 240 garden waste
From the collections we've found for homes in Three Rivers. 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 Three Rivers District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Three Rivers, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Three Rivers District 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 Three Rivers, your bins are collected by Three Rivers District Council, not Hertfordshire County Council.
Three Rivers District Council collects household bins across its 13 wards in the East of England:
- Abbots Langley & Bedmond
- Carpenders Park
- Chorleywood North & Sarratt
- Chorleywood South & Maple Cross
- Dickinsons
- Durrants
- Gade Valley
- Leavesden
- Moor Park & Eastbury
- Oxhey Hall & Hayling
- Penn & Mill End
- Rickmansworth Town
- South Oxhey
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.