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.

Parish	Collection point	Collection date
Alpheton	Village hall car park (by the bins)	Monday 6 January
Bacton	Village hall car park	Tuesday 14 January
Barking	Village hall (grass area at rear)	Thursday 9 January
Boxford	Boxford Spinney (entrance)	Friday 10 January
Burstall	Village sign (near the church)	Friday 17 January
Buxhall	Sports field car park (opposite village hall)	Thursday 16 January
Capel St Mary	By Pass Nurseries (near the bottle bank)	Wednesday 15 January
Chattisham and Hintlesham	Hintlesham community hall	Friday 17 January
Chelmondiston	Collimer Close car park	Monday 13 January
Claydon/Barham	Pavilion at the recreation ground	Thursday 9 January
Cockfield	Cockfield Hall Farm, Howe Lane (next to the barn)	Wednesday 8 January
Coddenham	The Coddenham Park Centre	Thursday 9 January
Combs	Beside the village sign (Bildeston Road)	Thursday 16 January
Cotton	Village hall car park	Tuesday 14 January
Crowfield	Village hall car park	Wednesday 22 January
Debenham	Leisure centre car park (near recycling banks)	Tuesday 21 January
Elmsett	Village hall	Friday 10 January
Elmswell	Blackbourne Recreation car park	Wednesday 15 January
Eye	Playing field car park	Tuesday 21 January
Fressingfield	Sancroft Hall (next to Fox and Goose)	Monday 20 January
Gislingham	Village hall car park	Monday 13 January
Glemsford	Park next to Glemsford Village Hall	Monday 6 January
Great Cornard	Stevenson Centre, Stevenson Approach (off Broom Street)	Wednesday 8 January
Great Finborough	Next to the village notice board	Thursday 16 January
Hadleigh	Stonehouse Road car park	Thursday 16 January
Hadleigh	Townhall Market Place	Thursday 16 January
Haughley	The green	Friday 17 January
Harkstead	Millennium Green (opposite village hall)	Monday 13 January
Hoxne	Village hall car park	Monday 20 January
Lawshall	The Glebe bottle bank	Monday 6 January
Leavenheath	Village hall	Friday 17 January
Long Melford	Old school car park (Melford Community Association)	Monday 6 January
Mendlesham	Community centre	Monday 13 January
Monks Eleigh	Church hall site	Friday 10 January
Needham Market	Station Yard (beside the textile bank)	Wednesday 22 January
Newton	Church Road bring site	Friday 17 January
Old Newton	Village hall car park	Friday 17 January
Palgrave	Community centre (off Rose Lane)	Monday 13 January
Rattlesden	Playing field car park	Thursday 16 January
Ringshall	Village hall car park	Thursday 16 January
Shimpling	Adjacent to Bush Inn (by bottle bank)	Monday 6 January
Sproughton	Village green (Corner of Lower Street, High Street and Bramford Road)	Wednesday 15 January
Stratford St Mary	Village hall car park	Wednesday 15 January
Stowmarket	Chilton Field	Friday 10 January
Stowmarket	Recreation ground	Friday 10 January
Stowupland	Village hall car park	Friday 10 January
Stutton	Community hall	Monday 13 January
Sudbury	Kingfisher Leisure Centre car park (next to bottle banks)	Tuesday 7 January
Thorndon	The Black Horse car park	Tuesday 21 January
Thurston	New Green	Wednesday 15 January
Walsham Le Willows	Four Ashes Farm (opposite nursery)	Tuesday 14 January
Whatfield	Primary school	Friday 10 January
Wickham Skeith	Village hall car park	Monday 13 January
Worlingworth	Community centre car park	Monday 20 January