What Can I Recycle and Where?

Click on the link for full list of  what you can recycle at each of our Household Waste Recycling Centres  

At these  you can take both large and small items to be recycled such as: garden waste, wood, metal, soil and rubble, white goods such as washing machines and fridges – you can also take your small items like newspapers and magazines, glass bottles and jars and food and drink cans.

At each of the HWRCs there are a number of containers for a variety of materials. You will be asked to separate the items you bring into the different containers so that materials can be recycled where possible.

Hard Plastics

For a trial period the following plastics can now be accepted at some of the HWRCs (listed below):
• Wheelie bins
• Recycling bins
• Milk and beer crates
• Packing crates
• Car bumpers
• Children’s toys and games
• Pipes
• Buckets
• Hard plastic containers

Plastics with small amounts of surface contamination are acceptable, heavy soiling with such substances as mud, cement, paint or adhesive should be excluded. Plastic drums and buckets are acceptable as long as residual contamination has been rinsed out.

See HWRC list for the Centres that accept Hard Plastics

There is also a network of smaller recycling bandk, to find your nearest recycling bank, type in your postcode to the find out what items you can recycle at the recycling bank.   

Material of the month - January

Christmas Trees

You can recycle your real Christmas trees at any of our HWRCs, just bring it down put it in the garden waste bay and we will do the rest! It couldn't be easier.

Christmas Cards  

In the UK we send over 600 million Christmas cards each year; that’s a whole lot of paper, around 1,800 tonnes, the equivalent of 400 African elephants!
 

You can recycle your Christmas cards at home or at our HWRCs just look out for the paper and cardboard bays. Don't forget you can always re-use you Christmas cards to make gift tags, or more cards for next year.