Your waste and recycling services
Suffolk Coastal is committed to
working in partnership with its residents to make it easier
for them to get into the recycling habit. We collect paper and
green waste from every home in the district on a fortnightly
basis, and there are over 250 mini-recycling centres in more
than 80 of the district’s parishes.
Thanks to the willingness of
residents to make use of their
local recycling services, the current
amount of household waste that is being recycled rather than
going into landfill rubbish tips is around 45 per cent, which
is well above the national average.
In the summer of 2006 a new
wheeled bin recycling service was launched for
over 9,000 homes in the district, giving people the chance to have
their cardboard, plastics, foil, cans and paper collected every
fortnight. 9,500 homes received the new service in 2007 and another
13,500 will get it in 2008.
Every home in the district now has an
improved
green waste service so that everyone can recycle all their food
waste by putting it in their brown bin.
However, while we are working hard to reduce the amount of waste
that is thrown away, we also offer a wide range of services to
dispose of waste including our normal
household refuse collection service.
Follow the links below or use the left hand menu to find
out more about our services and tips on recycling and how to
minimise the waste you produce:
Home composting.
Find out about the environmental benefits of home composting and
details of our compost bin offer. Don't miss the offer of free
compost during the 'Shovel it yourself' day at Foxhall household
waste recycling centre on Saturday 10 May.
Why not switch to real
nappies?
Suffolk Coastal’s recycling team have
some free loan packs of real nappies on offer for interested
parents to try.
Spring Clean litter pick
scheme.
Suffolk Coastal will supply free disposable rubber gloves and
litter sacks to any local community group organising a litter pick
and dispose of the rubbish collected afterwards.
Minimise your waste.
How you can minimise the amount of waste you produce.
Recycling in Suffolk
Coastal.
Information about recycling, recycling facilities and other
intiatives.
Household refuse
collections.
Find out about the weekly collection of household refuse sacks.
Green waste collection.
Find out about the fortnightly collection of green waste from your
brown wheeled bin.
Waste paper collection.
Find out about the fortnightly collection of waste paper from your
green crate or blue-lidded bin.
Wheeled bin recycling
service.
Find out about the new twin-bin recycling service being rolled out
across the district.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment
(WEEE).
Advice on how to safely dispose of waste electrical and electronic
equipment.
Bulky household items.
Details of the Council's bulky household item collection service
and information about household waste recycling centres where bulky
items can be disposed of free of charge.
Household paint and other hazardous
household waste.
Information about how to safely dispose of household paint and
other hazardous household waste.
Householder's duty of
care.
Information about the regulations that require all householders in
England to ensure that all of their waste is disposed of
properly.
Ordering green and black refuse
sacks.
How to order extra black and green refuse sacks for your household
refuse or garden waste.
Litter and flytipping.
Information about the penalties for dropping litter and flytipping
and how to report problems. Also details of the Spring Clean scheme
that helps community groups organise litter picks to improve the
local environment.
Trade & clinical
waste.
Contact details for the trade and clinical service.
If you want any more information or advice about our waste
and recycling services, you can contact us
on 01394 444000 or email
scsltd@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk.