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 |
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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 |