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