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Chichester 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 Chichester
These are the containers used in Chichester. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
Food waste
Garden waste
Green bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Chichester 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.
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Chichester District Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Buy or replace a binChichester District Council
- Reusing, donating and repairing household itemsChichester District Council
- Garden waste collectionsChichester District Council
- Food waste collectionsChichester District Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemChichester District Council
- Get help putting your bins outChichester District Council
- Contact the waste serviceChichester District Council
- Book a bulky household waste collectionChichester District Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Chichester 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 Chichester 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 Chichester 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 Chichester compares
- Recycled or composted
- 43%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 428 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £64per household a year. Similar councils: £65
- Value for money
- 5 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.
Chichester Council outlined phased weekly food-waste collections in January 2026, with caddies and outdoor bins due to reach homes from March. It said roughly a third of the district’s typical rubbish bin was food waste and planned processing at Horsham into energy and fertiliser. This followed a separate September 2025 decision to end a four-year trial, covering three-quarters of district homes, collecting coffee pods, textiles and small electrical items from 30 November. The council cited uptake below 4% and costs of £58,300 a year, promising information about alternative recycling routes.
- District to get food waste collections in spring — www.bbc.co.uk
- Recycling service to stop due to low uptake — www.bbc.co.uk