Welcome to SuffolkRecycling Website - the one-stop shop for all your household waste recycling needs if you are a Suffolk resident.


Love Food, Hate Waste



Whatever food you love, we can help you waste less and save up to £50 a month. Read on or click on the Love Food Hate Waste logo to find out how.



Each year UK householders throw away 8.3 million tonnes of food and drink. Most of this is good food and drink like bread, meat, cheese, salad, milk and carbonated drinks that we simply have not got around to consuming. In fact, we waste £12 billion worth of good food every year. Each household can save up to £50 a month by reducing the amount of food that is wasted.

Click here to find tips to minimise food waste and save money.

Many thanks to Growing Places for the use of their vegetables!


Valentine’s Day

To pick up some recipe ideas for the day and find out how to have a green Valentine’s Day this year, click on our Valentine’s page.


Pancake Day

Find some unique pancake recipes and other food tips by clicking on our Pancake Day page. Don’t forget to compost all your pancake leftovers, to find out more visit our composting pages. This Lent, you can save yourself up to £50 by reducing the amount of food you waste, find out how by visiting the Love Food Hate Waste website.


'Seven Suffolk Streets' Bid Success!

Suffolk is one of only 7 areas in the country awarded £10,000 of government funding to create zero waste places. We will work with 7 streets - one in each district to include businesses, schools and homes to help everyone reduce the amount of waste they generate. Suffolk leads the way in recycling - we are already really good, recycling approx 50% but we want to be even better and this funding will enhance the education work already being done across the county. Find out more in the What's New section.


Suffolk On The Up!

Thanks to the efforts of Suffolk residents, newly released figures from DEFRA show that the county recycled 48.4% of its household waste, the 7th best county recycling rate in England. You can read how local authorities in the county have helped achieve this in the Suffolk Waste Partnership 2008/09 Annual Report. The report explains more about the partnership and the work it undertook during 2008/09.


Are you unsure about what to do with a particular item of waste?

Follow our 3 point plan:

1. Look at our A-Z of materials page to see if there are ways it can be reused or recycled. (let us know if there's anything you think is missing and we'll add to it - simply email us.)

2. Visit your local council's webpages to check whether you can put in the recycling bin and composting bin.

3. Check out whether it can be taken to your local HWRC.


Click here to visit the Recycle Now website for more tips on how to decrease your waste.


If you found the information on this website useful and would like to know more about recycling and waste issues in Suffolk please register with Suffolkrecycling below. By registering you will gain access to more in-depth information on current strategies and progress; past campaigns and successes and challenges which face waste management organisations in Suffolk in the future.

Happy reducing, reusing and recycling!