Christmas Waste Collections

Christmas and New Year Waste Collection Schedule

Refuse (general rubbish) and recycling collections

Collections will take place as normal up to, and including, Tuesday 24 December 2024.

From Wednesday 25 December 2024 to Saturday 11 January 2025, refuse and recycling collections will be on an amended schedule.

View the BABERGH Christmas and New Year waste collection schedule 2024-25

View the MID SUFFOLK Christmas and New Year waste collection schedule 2024-25

If you are unsure which district the address is in, you can find your local council online.

From Monday 13 January 2025, refuse and recycling collections return to the normal schedule.

Garden waste (brown bin) collections

Collections will take place as normal up to, and including, Friday 20 December 2024.

From Monday 23 December 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025, there will be no garden waste collections.

From Monday 6 January 2025, garden waste collections return to the normal schedule.

Reducing, reusing and recycling your waste

Please visit the Suffolk Recycles website for useful information on how to reduce, reuse and recycle your waste over the festive period.

For Christmas recipe ideas, edible gifts and what to do with your leftovers visit the Food Savvy website.

Find out how you can dispose of extra waste that won't fit in your bin.

Real Christmas tree recycling

Garden waste bins

If you have a garden waste (brown) bin, during January you can leave your real Christmas tree beside your brown bin on collection day. Please remove all decorations.

Please note: Large trees - trees over 7ft tall, or have a trunk thicker that 7cm - cannot be collected. Instead, they can be taken to a recycling centre or a collection point.

Recycling centres

Real Christmas trees can be taken to a recycling centre in Suffolk and placed in the garden waste container.

Christmas tree collection points

You can take your real Christmas tree, with all decorations removed, to one of our collection points.

Ensure the tree is at the specified location, at the latest, the day before the collection date listed.

Collection locations and dates to be published later in the year.