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Suffolk County Council
Suffolk County Council provides the 18 Household Waste Recycling Centres in the County. We are the responsible authority for disposing of waste in the County and run the Future of Suffolk's Waste Project, looking at how we will dispose of our waste in the future. The County Council also provides a School Waste Education service and booking of the education bus. We support the Master Composter Volunteer programme and are the lead partner in the WRAP programme for home compost bins. We run events and campaigns to raise awareness on waste minimisation issues. Contact us at www.suffolk.gov.uk or email at suffolk.recycling@suffolk.gov.uk
Forest Heath
Bring Banks:
- The district has 41 ‘Bring’ recycling bank sites
- Most recycling points collect: glass, cans, paper and textiles.
Recycling Schemes:
- The council offers 2 kerbside schemes collecting green compostable waste from 21,800 households and dry recyclables from 25,900 households.
- The fortnightly brown wheeled bin collection accepts: garden waste, raw vegetable and fruit waste, tea bags, egg shells, stale bread, shredded paper and untreated cardboard, e.g. cereal boxes.
- The fortnightly blue wheeled bin collection accepts clean and dry waste of the following: plastic bottles, cardboard, plastic packaging (incl. margarine tubs and yoghurt pots), aluminium foil, paper, newspapers and magazines, brochures and junk mail, directories, food cans and drink tins.
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St Edmundsbury
Bring Banks:
- The borough has 55 ‘Bring’ recycling bank sites.
- Most recycling points collect: glass and paper.
- Several recycling points also collect: textiles, cans, books, and engine oil.
Recycling Schemes:
- The council offers a fortnightly kerbside scheme (brown bins) to 39,000 homes collecting: kitchen and garden waste (no cooked meat, fish or bones).
- The Council also offers a kerbside recycling service for dry recyclables on a fortnightly collection to the entire Borough. Through this service, residents are able to recycle paper, card, plastics and metals.
- The blue bin and brown bin is collected one week and the black bin (normal rubbish) is collected the following week.
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Babergh
Bring Banks:
- The district has 109 ‘Bring’ recycling bank sites.
- Most recycling sites collect: glass and paper.
- Several recycling sites also collect: textiles and cans.
Recycling Schemes:
- The council offers a district wide alternate weekly kerbside scheme collecting: newspapers, magazines, junk mail, cans and tins, aluminium foil, cardboard and all plastic bottles and containers.
- Babergh District Council is in partnership with the Resource Centre, Sudbury. They recycle cans, foil, paper, inkjet cartridges, textiles and books. They also operate a Cash for Cans scheme where aluminium cans can be exchanged for cash. Phone 01787 296090 for further details.
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Mid Suffolk
Bring Banks:
- The district has around 120 ‘Bring’ recycling bank sites. These recycling sites collect glass, cans, newspapers and textile.
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Ipswich
Bring Banks:
- The District provides 80 ‘Bring’ recycling bank sites.
- Most recycling points collect: glass and paper.
- Several recycling points also collect: textiles, cans, books
Recycling Schemes:
- In April 2005 nearly 53,000 households were able to recycle from their doorstep by using their blue bin. Since the scheme began in 2003 over 12,600 tonnes of waste has been recycled instead of being buried in landfill.
- In addition to this 42,000 residents can also benefit from the use of a brown bin for all their garden waste. The upgrading of the compost plant now means that residents can recycle spoilt fruit and vegetables as well as shredded paper.
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Suffolk Coastal District Council
Bring Banks:
- The district has 300 ‘Bring’ recycling bank sites.
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These sites each collect one or more of the following materials: glass bottles and jars, textiles, cartons (e.g. Tetrapak), books, paper, steel and aluminium cans and foil.
Recycling Schemes:
The council currently operates the following kerbside recycling systems:
- All households receive an alternate week recycling and refuse collection service. Plastic containers, cans, tins and foil, cardboard and clean paper can all be placed in the blue lidded wheeled bin for recycling. The recycling bin is emptied on alternating weeks to the grey-lidded wheeled bin, which is for the remaining, non-recyclable residual waste.
- The council also offers every household in the district a fortnightly collection of garden waste, all cooked and uncooked food waste including vegetable and fruit waste, meat and fish waste and bones, cardboard, shredded paper, and Yellow Pages in the brown wheeled bin.
Household Waste Recycling Centre:
- The County Council HWRCs at Felixstowe, Foxhall and Leiston recycle: bulky metal items, books, car batteries, household batteries, mobile phones, engine oil, green waste, paper, refrigerators, glass, plastics, cardboard, window glass, wood, cans and textiles.
- The sites at Foxhall and Felixstowe also have facilities to recycle rubble.
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Waveney 
Bring Banks:
- The district has 74 ‘Bring’ recycling bank sites.
- Most recycling points collect: glass.
- Several recycling points also collect: paper, textiles, cans and books.
Recycling Schemes:
The council offers a fortnightly kerbside scheme (Green and Blue Bins) to 42,000 homes collecting:
- Garden Waste (Green)
- Dry recyclables; including paper, plastic, cardborad and metal (Blue)
- The blue and green bins are collected one week and the black bin (normal rubbish) collected the following week.
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