Non-recyclable waste
Purple-lidded non-recyclable waste bin
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East Hertfordshire bin collection dates
- Add your dates to Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
- Get an email the evening before
- Print an A4 sheet for the fridge
Bins in East Hertfordshire
These are the containers used in East Hertfordshire. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Mixed recycling
Black-lidded mixed recycling bin
Food waste
23-litre brown outside food waste caddy
Garden
Cardboard and paper
Blue-lidded cardboard and paper bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are East Hertfordshire District Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Greyed-out bin icons are placeholders where the container type or colour is not confirmed.
- Non-recyclable waste: House collections using individual bins
- Non-recyclable waste: Not Flats and households with communal bins
- Mixed recycling: House collections using individual bins
- Mixed recycling: Not Flats and households with communal bins
- Food waste: House collections using individual containers
- Food waste: Not Kitchen caddies and communal bins
- Cardboard and paper: House collections using individual bins
- Cardboard and paper: Not Flats and households with communal bins
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from East Hertfordshire District Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What goes in your bins and how collections workEast Hertfordshire District Council
- Garden waste collectionsEast Hertfordshire District Council
- Food waste collectionsEast Hertfordshire District Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemEast Hertfordshire District Council
- Recycling centres and tipsHertfordshire County Council
- Get help putting your bins outEast Hertfordshire District Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell East Hertfordshire District Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
Missed-bin guidance checked 20 September 2026.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
- Make a complaint to East Hertfordshire District CouncilIf reporting it didn't fix it.
Complaint didn't work either? Ask your councillors
If you've already reported the problem and used the council's complaints process, your district councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my district councillors on East Hertfordshire District Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 6 September 2026.
How East Hertfordshire compares
- Recycled or composted
- 43%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 453 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £50per household a year. Similar councils: £71
- Value for money
- 7 out of 10 An independently constructed WhenIsBins rating, not an official government rating.
Official figures for England, 2024 to 2025.
Local bins and recycling news
AI-generated summary, reviewed before publication. Checked 18 September 2026.
A year after East Herts changed its bin system, Buntingford residents gave mixed verdicts in August 2026 BBC reporting. Some found the number of containers confusing or disliked keeping them outside their homes; others said reminders made the three-weekly pattern easy to follow. Councillor Tim Hoskin acknowledged a difficult start but defended the recycling benefits. Separate reporting said East Herts had collected more than 6,500 tonnes of food waste in the first year. The reported 36% fall in non-recyclable rubbish covered East and North Herts together, rather than East Herts alone.
- What's it like when you have five bins? — www.bbc.com
- East Herts bins a year on: rubbish down 36% from a 43% start — bishopsstortfordnews.co.uk