Recycling

About your blue and brown bin collections, recycling centre locations, projects and campaigns.

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Using your blue bin

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

Using your brown bin

The brown bin composting scheme is proving a real hit with Ipswich residents and covers nearly 46,000 properties across the town.

Recycling Points

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.

Recycle your coffee pods with Podback

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.

Where to put your bin

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

Reusable nappies

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.

On-the-go recycling

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.

Podback FAQs

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.