Recycling

Your blue bin is for recycling clean, dry items such as paper, cans, cardboard and rigid plastic food and drink containers.

All flats are provided with blue recycling bins for recycling clean, dry items such as paper, cans, cardboard and rigid plastic food and drink containers.

From June 2026, Ipswich households will have more opportunities to recycle as part of nationwide changes to waste collections.

We’re holding some drop-in events over this Summer, so you can meet the team, learn about the new government legislation on recycling, and find out more about improved recycling and waste services starting in Ipswich on 1 June.

Using your brown bin

Use our bulky garden waste collection service for compostable waste that will not fit in your brown bin.

Ipswich has many different sites where you can recycle a variety of items. Find out your nearest recycling point for books, cans, cardboard, glass, oil, paper, plastic, textiles and electrical waste.

The nearest sites are at Sir Alf Ramsey Way and Foxhall and are run by Suffolk County Council.

Ipswich Borough Council is working with Podback to provide this pioneering new service, enabling you to recycle your coffee pods every week as part of your normal kerbside waste and recycling collections.

Find out how you can recycle your household electrical items in Ipswich.

Suffolk Cloth Nappies supports families to use reusable nappies through the provision of education and resources. They also have a library stocked with a variety of nappies available to hire, so you can try before you buy.

Where you can recycle cans in Ipswich.

Where you can recycle cardboard in Ipswich.

Where you can recycle glass in Ipswich.

Where you can recycle paper in Ipswich.

Where you can recycle plastics in Ipswich.

Where you can recycle oil in Ipswich.

Where you can recycle textiles in Ipswich.

Where you can recycle waste electrical and electronic equipment in Ipswich.

Ipswich Borough Council has eight bins in Ipswich Town Centre dedicated to plastic bottle and aluminum can recycling, thanks to grant funding from Hubbub. These can be found in Tavern Street, Westgate Street and Carr Street.

Make sure that your bin is out and ready for collection on the right day and in the right place.

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A guide to help explain the composting process.

Podback is a not-for-profit coffee pod recycling service. Created in partnership with the biggest names in coffee pod systems, Nespresso, NESCAFE Dolce Gusto and Tassimo, to give people who enjoy the quality and taste of coffee pods simple and easy ways to recycle them.