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Collection days

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Household refuse and recycling collections

Household refuse (general rubbish) and recycling are collected on an alternate week schedule.

This means that your refuse will be collected one week and your recycling the next.

Collections following a bank holiday will usually be a day later than normal for the rest of the week.

Check what should go in your refuse and recycling bins. If a bin contains unacceptable items, it will not be emptied.

Please ensure that your bin is out by 6.30am on your collection day and that you follow our bin collection advice.

Refuse and recycling collection schedules

Find your refuse and recycling collection day
View the Babergh refuse and recycling collection schedule 2022
View the Mid Suffolk refuse and recycling collection schedule 2022

If you need one (or all) of these schedules in a different format, please email our Web team.

Sometimes, collections can be delayed by factors outside of our control. Examples include roadworks, vehicle breakdowns, crew sickness, severe weather or parked cars preventing safe access.

Check for delays in your area

Garden waste (brown bin) collections

Garden waste is collected on a fortnightly schedule via a subscription service.

The service is paused for two weeks over the Christmas and New Year period. Plus, collections following a bank holiday will usually be a day later than normal for the rest of the week.

Check what should go in your garden waste bin. If a bin contains unacceptable items, it will not be emptied.

Please ensure that your bin is out by 6.30am on your collection day and that you follow our bin collection advice.

Garden waste collection schedules

Step one

Use the garden waste collection schedule checker to find the collection week and day for a street:

View the garden waste collection schedule checker

Step two

Depending on your collection week, view either the Week 1 or Week 2 garden waste collection schedule:

View the WEEK 1 garden waste collection schedule 2022
View the WEEK 2 garden waste collection schedule 2022

Sometimes, collections can be delayed by factors out of our control. Examples include roadworks, vehicle breakdowns, crew sickness, severe weather or parked cars preventing safe access.

Check for delays in your area

Business waste collections

If you are a business waste customer, please contact the Commercial Waste Officer for your district.