Householders can take bulky items, garden waste, electrical or electronic equipment, furniture and metals to be recycled where practicable or otherwise disposed of.

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Opening times

The household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) are open seven days a week at the following times:

Closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

The HWRCs are open to householders to dispose of their own household and green garden rubbish.

Facilities exist at these centres for the recycling of:

• Bric-a-brac
• Cans
• Cardboard
• Car batteries
• Cookers
• Washing machines
• Garden waste
• Gas cylinders
• General waste
• Glass
• Fridges
• Hardcore
• Newspapers/Magazines
• Oil Metal
• Plastic bottles
• Textiles
• Wood

The site also deals with the de-gassing of fridges and freezers.

Please ask for help at the site if you’re uncertain what to do or you need help to lift or carry your waste. You may find sites less busy on weekdays.

These sites DO NOT accept asbestos, car tyres, trade, commercial or industrial waste.

Remember - It is illegal to dump waste at places other than within the skips provided at the Recycling Sites. Trade and commercial waste is also not accepted!

Using the Household Waste Centre

These sites can be very popular at weekends and bank holidays through the summer, please follow the guidelines below:

• Please carry out the site staff's instructions. It is in everybody's interest to pass through the site as quickly and simply as possible.
  
  
• Please wait for your turn at the relevant skip.
  
  
• The sites cannot accept waste from businesses or commercial properties and staff are well within their rights to turn people away who they suspect fall into these categories.
  
  
• There is a limit to the amount of rubble that will be accepted. This is restricted to a couple of small bags of soil, a handful of bricks or a couple of slabs. Abuse of this could result in eviction from the site.

If you require information regarding the recycling scheme, please let us know by completing the online form .

If you need to report any queries / concerns regarding the council bring sites (also known as paper, cans & bottles recycling banks), please let us know by completing the online form.