What is accepted for recycling or disposal at the tip?
- Mobile phones - do not forget to clear your data
- Garden waste - green waste suitable for composting
- Cardboard - boxes (flattened), other cardboard packaging, cereal cartons etc.
- Glass - bottles and jars
- Batteries - household and car
- Paint - household, e.g. emulsion, gloss, eggshell
- Mineral oil - engine oil
- Cooking oil - vegetable-based cooking and oils
- Paper - newspapers, junk mail etc.
- Scrap metal - steel cans, aluminium cans, scrap metal items (no car parts)
- Hardcore and rubble* - including DIY waste*
- Ceramics - crockery, flower pots, household ceramics
- Textiles and shoes - clean, dry textiles and shoes
- Fluorescent tubes - all flurescent tubes
- Low energy light bulbs - all low energy light bulbs
- Large domestic appliances - ridges and freezers, washing machines
- Small electric appliances - microwaves, toasters, irons, kettles
- TVs and Monitors - all TVs and monitors
- Wood - mixed wood
- Reuse items - furniture, books, CDs, DVDs, bicycles, bric-a-brac, spectacles
- Plasterboard - gypsum-based products: items containing asbestos will not be accepted
- Printer cartridges - all printer cartridges
- Mattresses - all matresses
- Residual household waste - waste not suitable for reuse, recycling or composting, furniture potentially containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs)*
- Hazardous household waste - including pesticides and herbicides, common household chemicals, antifreeze, screenwash
- Vapes - all vapes
* Please note furniture potentially containing POPs need to be placed into a separate container. Please follow instructions from on-site staff.
If the item you wish to recycle or dispose of is not shown above please check the A to Z of recycling and waste.
Asbestos, gas cylinders and tyres cannot be accepted at either of our tips.
Please be aware there is a restriction of one car boot load. If you are generating large quantities of these materials you should consider alternative methods of disposal such as hiring a skip.