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We only collect from households that have signed up for the service and present a sticker on their green bin.

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We only collect from households that have subscribed to the Garden Waste Collection Service and present a sticker on their green bin.

The Garden Waste Collection Service for 2025/26 is now live. Click the button below to pay for your subscription from April 2025. The charge is £50.

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If you have signed up to the garden waste collection your green bin will be collected fortnightly on the same day as your brown recycling bin. To make our rounds more efficient you may see a change to your collection day. You will receive information about this in a collection calendar delivered with your new silver food bin or you can check via our bin collection day finder .

FAQs

Food waste and compostable liners

  • From April 2025 food waste should go in your new silver food waste bin and your green bin will be for garden waste only.
  • Until April, when using your green bin to dispose of food waste the caddy liners must be compostable. They can be bought from Hertsmere outlets or supermarkets. We will only accept caddy sized liners that carry the EN13432 certified seedling logo below and be labelled as compostable. Different rules apply from April 2025. Please see food waste for full details.
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What to put in your green bin

  • Grass and hedge cuttings
  • Small tree prunings, twigs and bark
  • Tree branches (up to 6 inches in diameter)
  • Plants with excess soil removed
  • Moss, weeds (excluding controlled weeds such as Japanese Knotweed)
  • Real Christmas trees (cut up)
  • Flowers
  • Fallen fruit
  • Leaves
  • Food waste is only acceptable until April 2025. This includes meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, all raw or cooked, plus leftovers, bones and shells.

Items to keep out of your green bin

  • Paper (including paper towels, tissues, cotton wool, make-up pads and wet wipes)
  • Cardboard
  • Brown paper/envelopes
  • Treated wood, e.g. baskets, fence panels, furniture
  • Soil/turf
  • Dog poo or cat litter
  • Plastic packaging
  • Any packaging that says it is compostable
Read more about compostable plastics

Improved waste and recycling collections

In 2023 we enforced our single black bin policy and in 2025 we will be introducing a chargeable opt-in garden waste collection service and a weekly food waste collection service. Revenue from the garden waste will ensure we can deliver the weekly food waste collection to all households. This will allow our residents to recycle more, helping divert waste from landfill and reduce our carbon footprint whilst ensuring we comply with anticipated legislation changes.