Babergh bin collection days
Find out when Babergh District Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.
Bin day reminders
After you find your collection days, you can add them to your calendar and get a reminder the evening before. How bin day reminders work
Christmas and New Year
Find out if Babergh bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Babergh
Babergh District Council collects:
- Refuse collection (General rubbish)
- Paper and card
- Recycling
- Food waste
- Garden waste collection (Brown bin)
From the collections we've found for homes in Babergh. Your street may have a different mix of bins.
What you can recycle at home
Under the government's Simpler Recycling rules, councils in England collect these from homes:
- Paper and card: newspapers, magazines, envelopes and cardboard boxes
- Plastic: bottles, pots, tubs and trays
- Metal: drinks cans, food tins, clean foil and empty aerosols
- Glass: bottles and jars
- Cartons: food and drinks cartons, like juice and soup cartons
- Food waste: all food, cooked or raw, including peelings, bones, tea bags and coffee grounds, collected every week
Plastic bags and wrapping will be added by 31 March 2027. Some councils are still bringing in some of these collections.
Which bin each one goes in depends on your council. Check Babergh District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Babergh, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
Babergh District Council's website takes a while to check, so your first search can take up to 30 seconds. After that, your collection days appear straight away.
Areas covered
In Babergh, your bins are collected by Babergh District Council, not Suffolk County Council.
Babergh District Council collects household bins across its 24 wards in the East of England:
- Assington
- Box Vale
- Brantham
- Brett Vale
- Bures St Mary & Nayland
- Capel St Mary
- Chadacre
- Copdock & Washbrook
- East Bergholt
- Ganges
- Great Cornard
- Hadleigh North
- Hadleigh South
- Lavenham
- Long Melford
- North West Cosford
- Orwell
- South East Cosford
- Sproughton & Pinewood
- Stour
- Sudbury North East
- Sudbury North West
- Sudbury South East
- Sudbury South West
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.