Christmas waste collections
Refuse (general rubbish) and recycling collections
Collections will take place as normal up to, and including, Wednesday 24 December 2025.
From Thursday 25 December 2025 to Saturday 10 January 2026, refuse and recycling collections will be on an amended schedule:
- For an address in Babergh: view the Babergh Christmas and New Year Waste Collection Schedule 2025-26
- For an address in Mid Suffolk: view the Mid Suffolk Christmas and New Year Waste Collection Schedule 2025-26
If you are unsure which district the address is in, you can find your district council online.
From Monday 12 January 2026, refuse and recycling collections will return to the normal schedule.
Garden waste (brown bin) collections
Collections will take place as normal up to, and including, Friday 19 December 2025.
From Monday 22 December 2025 to Sunday 4 January 2026, there will be no garden waste collections.
From Monday 5 January 2026, garden waste collections will return to the normal schedule.
How to have a more sustainable Christmas
For ways to reduce, reuse and recycle for a more sustainable Christmas, visit the Suffolk Recycles website.
For tips on how to reduce your food waste this festive season, visit the Food Savvy website.
Real Christmas tree recycling
There are several ways to recycle your real Christmas tree.
Garden waste collections
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.
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.
Please leave the tree at the location no later than the day before the collection date listed.
Please note: Large trees - trees over 7ft tall, or have a trunk thicker that 7cm - cannot be left.
Details of more locations to be publish soon.
| Parish | Collection point | Collection date |
|---|---|---|
| Alpheton | Village Hall (car park by the bins) | Monday 5 January |
| Bacton | Village Hall (car park) | Tuesday 13 January |
| Barking | Grass area rear of Village Hall | Thursday 8 January |
| Boxford | Boxford Spinney (entrance) | Friday 9 January |
| Burstall | At the Village Sign (near the church) | Friday 16 January |
| Buxhall | Sports field car park opposite Village Hall | Thursday 15 January |
| Capel St Mary | By Pass Nurseries (near the bottle bank) | Wednesday 14 January |
| Chattisham & Hintlesham | Hintlesham Community Hall | Friday 16 January |
| Chelmondiston | Collimer Close Car Park | Monday 12 January |
| Claydon/Barham | Pavilion at the recreation ground | Thursday 8 January |
| Cockfield | Cockfield Hall Farm, Howe Lane (next to the barn) | Wednesday 7 January |
| Coddenham | The Coddenham Park Centre | Thursday 8 January |
| Combs | Bildeston Road, beside the village sign | Thursday 15 January |
| Cotton | Village Hall car park | Tuesday 13 January |
| Crowfield | Village Hall car park | Wednesday 21 January |
| Debenham | Leisure Centre car park near recycling banks | Tuesday 20 January |
| Elmsett | Elmsett Village Hall | Friday 9 January |
| Elmswell | Blackbourne Recreation car park | Wednesday 14 January |
| Eye | Playing field car park | Tuesday 20 January |
| Fressingfield | Sancroft Hall (next to Fox and Goose) | Monday 19 January |
| Gislingham | Village Hall car park | Monday 12 January |
| Glemsford | Park next to Glemsford Village Hall | Monday 5 January |
| Great Cornard | Stevenson Centre, Stevenson Approach (off Broom Street) | Wednesday 7 January |
| Great Finborough | Next to the village notice board | Thursday 15 January |
| Hadleigh | Stonehouse Road Car Park | Thursday 15 January |
| Hadleigh | Townhall, Market Place | Thursday 15 January |
| Harkstead | Millenium Green, opposite the Village Hall | Monday 12 January |
| Haughley | The Green | Friday 16 January |
| Hoxne | Village Hall car park | Monday 19 January |
| Lawshall | The Glebe bottle bank | Monday 5 January |
| Leavenheath | Village Hall | Friday 16 January |
| Long Melford | Old School Car Park (Melford Community Association) | Monday 5 January |
| Mendlesham | Community Centre | Monday 12 January |
| Monks Eleigh | Church Hill site | Friday 9 January |
| Needham Market | Station Yard beside the textile bank | Wednesday 21 January |
| Newton | Church Road bring site | Friday 16 January |
| Old Newton | Village Hall car park | Friday 16 January |
| Palgrave | The Community Centre off Rose Lane | Monday 12 January |
| Rattlesden | Playing field car park | Thursday 15 January |
| Ringshall | Village Hall car park | Thursday 15 January |
| Shimpling | Adjacent to Bush Inn by bottle bank | Monday 5 January |
| Sproughton | Village Green (Corner of Lower Street, High Street and Bramford Road) | Wednesday 14 January |
| Stratford St Mary | Car Park at Village Hall | Wednesday 14 January |
| Stowmarket | Chilton Field | Friday 9 January |
| Stowmarket | Recreation ground | Friday 9 January |
| Stowupland | Village hall car park | Friday 9 January |
| Stutton | Community Hall | Monday 12 January |
| Sudbury | Kingfisher Leisure Centre Car Park (next to bottle banks) | Tuesday 6 January |
| Thorndon | The Black Horse car park | Tuesday 20 January |
| Thurston | New Green | Wednesday 14 January |
| Walsham Le Willows | Four Ashes Farm opposite nursery | Tuesday 13 January |
| Whatfield | Primary School | Friday 9 January |
| Wickham Skeith | Village Hall car park | Monday 12 January |
| Worlingworth | Community Centre car park | Monday 19 January |