Collections
Blue bins are emptied every four weeks. To find out the next collection date for your street, use our online tool by clicking the button below.
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Find your next bin collection date
To ensure your bin is collected, please place it out at the correct time and location. For more details, visit our Where to Put Your Bin page.
For additional information about your waste collections, refer to the useful guidance below:
What you can recycle in your blue bin
Your blue recycling bins are for recycling clean, dry items such as, cans, and rigid plastic food containers. And now you can recycle even more at home. Aerosol cans, glass, tetra paks, plastic films can also go into your blue recycling bin. Please put all of your recyclable materials loose into the bin. Do not use bags. Empty, wash and squash plastic bottles and put the lid back on.
YES please in your blue bin!
- Plastic pots, tubs and trays
- Plastic carrier bags, film, wrapping and bubble wrap
- Plastic bottles
- Glass bottles and jars
- Drinks cartons (Tetra Pak)
- Metal cans and aerosols
- Tin foil and foil trays
You can leave lids, labels and nozzles on.
Please make sure all items are clean, empty and loose before putting in your recycling bin.
Only the items listed above may go in the blue-lidded recycling bin. If you include other things, your bin may not be emptied.
Useful tips
- Crushed waste takes up less space, so rinse and crush all cans, tins and plastic bottles;
- Use your old washing up water to clean your tins and bottles, that way you aren't using extra water
- Some items that cannot go in your recycling bins can still be recycled at the Household Waste Recycling Centres.
- The Suffolk A-Z of Recycling website helps you find out all the ways you can recycle.
- Metal Matters - Don’t delay – recycle today! Information from Suffolk Recycling on how to recycle metals.
Together we can get our recycling right!
Need a different size blue bin?
Blue bins are available in three sizes: small (140 litre) standard (240 litre) and large (360 litre).
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Request a different size blue bin
To request a different size blue bin, click the button below. Please note that the button opens in a new window.
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Request recycling sacks
Households that don't have access to a blue bin can request to receive recycling sacks online using the button below. Please note that the button opens in a new window.
Ordering a replacement blue bin
Replacement bins cost £46.85 and canbe ordered using the button below.
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Ordering a repair or a replacement bin
For further information please see Replacement bin charges.
What happens next after we've emptied blue bins
Once your blue bin has been collected, the contents are taken to a sorting facility at Great Blakenham. The material is put onto a conveyor belt and sorted using magnets and machinery, as well as by hand.