Mini-recycling centres
There are over 250 mini-recycling
centres in more than 80 of the district’s parishes, with over
300 glass bottle banks, more than 140 paper banks, and more
than 100 can banks.
Using your local recycling facilities helps those local
community groups that receive community recycling grants.
You can help protect Suffolk Coastal's environment by following
these guidelines for the use of recycling facilities:
- Please use the correct recycling banks for the correct
materials.
- Please do not leave boxes, bags etc at the recycling
sites.
- Please 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, and either take your
recyclables home and visit the recycling banks another day, or
visit 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.
- Please be considerate of local residents by not using the
recycling banks between 8pm and 8am.
Aerosol cans - please do not put these 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 to report any other problems
at recycling sites, please call us on 01394 444000
or email
scsltd@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk.
Please 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
Recyclables can also be taken to Suffolk County Council’s
household waste recycling centres (new
window) at the following locations:
- Felixstowe - Carr Road (off the end of Langer
Road).
- Foxhall - 1 mile west of A12, 1 mile before
Speedway Stadium.
- Leiston - Lovers Lane (road to Sizewell Power
Station).
All of these recycling centres accept:
- Glass.
- Cans and tins.
- Aerosol cans.
- Paper.
- Green waste.
- Cardboard and Yellow Pages.
- Plastic packaging.
- Plastic bags.
- Tetrapak 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.
They 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.