In addition to a brand new weekly food waste collection service, East Suffolk Council, external will be providing households with a new wheelie bin or container, so paper and card can be separated from plastics, metal, cartons and glass bottles.
In October the council approved spending £350,000 on changing its green garden bin lids to avoid confusion with the new bins for paper and card.
The new bins will be grey, but with a green lid, and the council feared it could cause mix-ups with the green garden bins.
Therefore garden bin lids will eventually change to brown, affecting 50,000 households that are signed up to the garden waste collection service.
It then plans to adopt a waste collection service every three weeks from June rather than its current fortnightly arrangement.
The council said the three-weekly collection would “save an extra 6,500 tonnes of carbon emissions a year”.
Paul Ashton, the cabinet member for assets, said the council would “leave no stone unturned to ensure that people understand the new service and how they can increase what they recycle”.
“The changes will not only introduce separate food waste collection, which will divert leftovers away from incineration and generate fuel, it will also see kerbside collections of glass and cartons so that these no longer need to be taken to bottle banks and recycling centres,” he added.