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Adur 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 Adur
These are the containers used in Adur. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
or Food waste
23-litre grey bin with an orange lockable lid, or 140-litre wheeled bin with an orange lid
Garden waste bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Adur District Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
- Food waste: Houses whose food waste service has started and that have received the starter pack
- Food waste: Not Flats and households awaiting rollout
- Food waste: Flats whose communal food waste service has started
- Food waste: Not Household kitchen caddies and flats awaiting rollout
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Adur District Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Food waste rollout, caddies and collection guidanceAdur District Council
- When and where to put your bins outAdur District Council and Worthing Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsAdur District Council and Worthing Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemAdur District Council and Worthing Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsAdur District Council and Worthing Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outAdur District Council and Worthing Borough Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Adur District Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
- 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 Adur 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 Adur 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 Adur compares
- Recycled or composted
- 42%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 387 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £29per household a year. Similar councils: £46
- Value for money
- 10 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.
Adur and Worthing councils announced a phased weekly food-waste service for September 2026, according to an August BBC report. Households would receive two food-waste containers, compostable liners and instructions explaining how to use the service, with each address told its start date nearer the rollout. Collections were planned for the same day as rubbish or recycling, with food taken to a plant near Horsham operated for West Sussex County Council, producing renewable energy and fertiliser for local farmers. Adur councillor Andrew Harvey said caddies would be emptied even when they contained very little food waste.