Mini-recycling centres
You can take your paper, glass
bottles and jars, steel and aluminium cans, textiles and
unwanted books to one of over 270 recycling sites across the
district:
Using your local recycling facilities helps those local
community groups that receive community recycling grants.
Please follow these guidelines when you use the recycling
facilities:
- Use the correct recycling banks for the correct materials.
- Do not leave boxes, bags etc at the recycling sites.
- Put recyclables into the banks, not on the ground.
- If the recycling banks are full, please do not leave
recyclables on the ground.
- Report full banks to Suffolk Coastal Services, and either take
your recyclables home and visit another day, or go to an
alternative recycling site.
- Do not use these sites for general rubbish or trade waste - you
may be fined up to £50,000 for doing so.
- Be considerate of local residents by not using the recycling
banks between 8pm and 8am.
- Do not put aerosol cans in your local can bank, they can be
taken to the
household waste recycling centres (new
window) at Foxhall, Felixstowe and Leiston.
To report full recycling banks or any other problems at
recycling sites, please contact Suffolk Coastal
Services on 01394 444000 or email
scsltd@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk.
Do not leave general waste or trade waste at the local recycling
points. To do so is flytipping, which is a criminal offence.
Abusing these facilities makes it very unpleasant for those who use
them properly and has a detrimental effect on public amenities. It
costs the Council around £50,000 to clean up rubbish dumped at
local recycling facilities in the district every year - that is £1
a year of everybody’s Council Tax bill wasted.
Household waste recycling centres
A wide range of materials can be recycled at Suffolk County
Council’s
household waste recycling centres (new
window) at:
- Felixstowe - Carr Road (off the end of Langer
Road).
- Foxhall - Foxhall Road (1 mile before Speedway
Stadium).
- Leiston - Lovers Lane (road to Sizewell Power
Station).
The household waste recycling centres are open every day, except
Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day (25 & 26 December
and 1 January).
- 1 November to 31 January - 8am until 4pm.
- 1 February to 31 March - 8am until 5pm.
- 1 April to 30 September - 8am until 6pm.
- 1 October to 31 October - 8am until
5pm.
All of these recycling centres accept:
- Glass.
- Cans and tins.
- Aerosol cans.
- Paper.
- Green waste.
- Cardboard and Yellow Pages.
- Plastic packaging.
- Plastic bags.
- Tetra Pak and other paper-based food and drink cartons.
- Textiles.
- Wood.
- Scrap metal.
- Bicycles.
- Fridges and freezers.
- Electrical and electronic equipment.
- Lightbulbs and fluorescent tubes.
- Cooking oil.
- Engine oil.
- Car batteries.
- Household batteries.
- Mobile phones.