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Gosport 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 Gosport
These are the containers used in Gosport. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling Waste Collection Service
Container details
The container pictures and words are Gosport Borough 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 Gosport Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What can I recycle?Gosport Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsGosport Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemGosport Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsGosport Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outGosport Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Gosport Borough 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 Gosport Borough 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 Gosport Borough 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 Gosport compares
- Recycled or composted
- 25%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 496 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £59per household a year. Similar councils: £50
- Value for money
- 3 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.
Gosport’s weekly food-waste collections were delayed until October 2026 because the council could not obtain specialist collection vehicles in time. A February BBC report said Gosport and East Hampshire expected to miss the national March deadline by six months. Gosport councillor Julie Westerby described the delay as unavoidable, blaming pressure on vehicle supplies. The new service is intended to divert food scraps from disposal so they can be processed into fertiliser and biogas for generating electricity. The report noted a government funding allocation of £892,846 for Gosport to help introduce the service.
- Food waste collections to start six months late — www.bbc.com