West Suffolk bin collection days
Find out when West Suffolk 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 West Suffolk bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in West Suffolk
West Suffolk District Council collects:
- Black bins
- Blue bins
- Food bins
- Brown bins
- Green bins
From the collections we've found for homes in West Suffolk. Your street may have a different mix of bins.
Many councils charge for garden waste collections, so they only show for homes that have signed up. Check West Suffolk District Council's website to find out about garden waste.
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 West Suffolk District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in West Suffolk, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
West Suffolk District Council took over from these councils, which no longer exist:
- Forest Heath District Council (until 2019): Newmarket, Mildenhall and Brandon
- St Edmundsbury Borough Council (until 2019): Bury St Edmunds and Haverhill
In West Suffolk, your bins are collected by West Suffolk District Council, not Suffolk County Council.
West Suffolk District Council collects household bins across its 43 wards in the East of England:
- Abbeygate
- Bardwell
- Barningham
- Barrow
- Brandon Central
- Brandon East
- Brandon West
- Chedburgh & Chevington
- Clare, Hundon & Kedington
- Eastgate
- Exning
- Haverhill Central
- Haverhill East
- Haverhill North
- Haverhill South
- Haverhill South East
- Haverhill West
- Horringer
- Iceni
- Ixworth
- Kentford & Moulton
- Lakenheath
- Manor
- Mildenhall Great Heath
- Mildenhall Kingsway & Market
- Mildenhall Queensway
- Minden
- Moreton Hall
- Newmarket East
- Newmarket North
- Newmarket West
- Pakenham & Troston
- Risby
- Rougham
- Southgate
- St Olaves
- Stanton
- The Fornhams & Great Barton
- The Rows
- Tollgate
- Westgate
- Whepstead & Wickhambrook
- Withersfield
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.