Device for recovering chaff on a combine harvester, designed to be mounted on a combine harvester capable of separating the clean grain from the chaff, and positioned downstream of the thresher screens after removal of the chaff spreader device. It comprises chaff collecting means (3, 4), instead of the spreader device, which collecting means (3, 4) are connected to a vertical lifting means (5) that feeds into a container (6, 60) located at the top of the combine harvester.