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Bin Collection Timetable for Christmas and New Year
| Usual Collection Day |
Revised Collection Day |
| Monday 24th December - |
Saturday 22nd December |
| Tuesday 25th December - |
Monday 24th December |
| Wednesday 26th December - |
Thursday 27th December |
| Thursday 27th December - |
Friday 28th December |
| Friday 28th December - |
Saturday 29th December |
| Monday 31st December - |
NO CHANGE |
| Tuesday 1st January - |
Wednesday 2nd January |
| Wednesday 2nd January - |
Thursday 3rd January |
| Thursday 3rd January |
Friday 4th January |
| Friday 4th January |
Saturday 5th January |
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After the success of previous years' Christmas Tree Recycle Schemes, which saw Babergh working with town and parish councils to get rid of unwanted trees, there are plans to provide a similar service over the weekend of the 5th and 6th January 2008. Jonas Grist, Babergh’s Recycling Officer, explains what people can do:
"Babergh would like to encourage all residents to take their Christmas trees to a local collection point that their Parish Council might be offering. Typically they’ll be on village greens, in the car parks, somewhere central, somewhere convenient central to where residents live. This will mean that Christmas trees will no longer go to landfill but will be recycled and composted back to a useful resource."
Listen to to this article:
 Christmas Tree Recycling Scheme (MP3 - 22seconds).
List of Tree Collection Points (for both Babergh and Mid-Suffolk).
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It’s Christmas morning. The presents have been opened and the floor is piled high with packaging. What do you do with it? Well, much of that packaging could be recycled. Arrangements are being made for people in the Babergh District to be able to do just that. Jonas Grist, Babergh’s Recycling Officer, explains how:
"In Babergh we have a twin bin system for black bin waste that goes to land fill and a blue bin for recyclables, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and cans. At Christmas blue bins often get over full and therefore we are offering all residents the opportunity to collect up to 3 clear plastic sacks from the Council offices in Hadleigh for them to use shortly after Christmas."
Listen to this article:
Extra Recycling Sacks (MP3 - 21seconds).
To claim your free sacks (maximum of 3 per household), please come along to Babergh District Council's offices in Corks Lane, Hadleigh during office opening hours (up to 4pm on Christmas Eve) or Sudbury Town Council. The extra sacks will be collected along with the first blue bin collection after Christmas Day.
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We’re frequently accused at Christmas with going over the top when it comes to food. A cautionary word from Babergh District Council’s Recycling Officer, Jonas Grist:
"We all enjoy having good food at Christmas but a lot of food is wasted. It is estimated that a third of the food we buy ends up in the dustbin and half of that is edible food that is perfectly okay to eat. So we would encourage everyone to think a little bit carefully about the amounts of food they cook, the way they store the food and to make sure the food doesn’t go beyond the sell by dates. Its about buying sensibly, and avoiding unnecessary wastage. Don’t forget that composting is also a key part to recycling, vegetable peelings and fruit skins, tea bags and egg shells, they can all be composted and call all mean that your black bin is significantly reduced in weight."
Listen to this article:
Food Waste (MP3 - 37seconds).
Further information about what you can put in your compost bin.
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Help make this holiday season as green as possible. Babergh’s man in charge of Recycling is Jonas Grist. He outlines his advice as we shop for the big day:
"To shop smartly, to shop locally, it is good for our shops and businesses, good for our local producers, for our growers, but it is also very good for global warming because it reduces the amount of transport that we incur by travelling further a field and we can all do our little bit to reduce the amount of packaging that is generated through the goods that we buy this Christmas."
Listen to this article:
Shop Smartly (MP3 - 21seconds).
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