General waste
Green-top bin
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Horsham 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 Horsham
These are the containers used in Horsham. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
Blue-top bin
Food waste
Orange-lidded food waste bin
Garden waste
Brown-top garden bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Horsham District Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Horsham District Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Order a new binHorsham District Council
- Garden waste collectionsHorsham District Council
- Food waste collectionsHorsham District Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemHorsham District Council
- Recycling centres and tipsHorsham District Council
- Get help putting your bins outHorsham District Council
- When and where to put your bins outHorsham District Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Horsham 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 Horsham 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 Horsham 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 Horsham compares
- Recycled or composted
- 52%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 389 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £54per household a year. Similar councils: £59
- Value for money
- 8 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.
Horsham Daily reported a change to the district’s free doorstep reuse service from 4 September 2026, with Anglo Doorstep Collections taking over reusable household items. The reported changes expand collections beyond clothes and electricals to books, toys, kitchenware, tools and other usable goods. Broken small electricals remain a council collection, while doorstep coffee-pod collections end after Podback withdrew funding. The report directs pod users to recycling centres, participating supermarkets or suitable postal-return schemes. Councillor David Skipp said the changes would improve convenience while using public resources more efficiently; ordinary bin rounds are unaffected.
- Horsham doorstep recycling: new collector from 4 September — horshamdaily.co.uk