Information for Waste Depositors (16KB - pdf help)

Charges

Vehicle and Site User Restrictions

Opening days:

Open all year round (except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day)

	Summer (Apr - Sep)	Winter (Oct - Mar)
Monday - Friday	8:00am - 6:00pm	8:00am - 4:30pm
Saturday - Sunday	10:00am - 6:00pm	10:00am - 4:30pm

List of acceptable materials:

Acceptable

• Recyclable materials
• Bulky household items, e.g. furniture, carpets, household electrical equipment

Recycling facilities available

• Glass bottles and jars
• Newspapers and magazines
• Card/Yellow Pages
• Aluminium and steel cans (including empty steel paint cans)
• Foil: clean aluminium foil only (recycled with metal)
• Textiles
• Garden/green waste
• Timber
• Metal
• Large domestic appliances, e.g. cookers, microwaves, washing machines etc
• Small domestic appliances, e.g. toasters, lawn mowers, hairdryers etc
• Spent printer cartridges
• Flat glass
• Fridges/freezers
• TVs / computer monitors
• Carpets
• Mattresses
• Plastic bottles
• Clean mixed plastic packaging, e.g. food trays and yoghurt pots (must be washed)
  • Cling film type packaging is not acceptable
• Bulky/rigid plastics, e.g. buckets, bins, plastic garden furniture, general housewares and childrens toys
• DIY engine oil
• Vegetable oil
• Car batteries
• Domestic batteries
• Energy saving light bulbs (recycled with fluorescent tubes)

Restricted

• DIY waste: 12 large bags/0.5 tonnes in 6 month period (EXCLUDES soil/rubble, plasterboard, asbestos, tyres - see Chargeable below)
• Household chemicals (e.g. pesticides, white spirit, bleach, old medicines, oil-based paint): 5 litres in 12 months.
• Gas bottles (4KB - pdf help)
• Fluorescent tubes: 5 in 6 month period
• Noxious weeds (606KB - pdf help)

Chargeable

• Soil/Rubble (including bricks, blocks, tiles, paving slabs, concrete posts, sanitary ware etc) £1.05 per bag
• Plasterboard (including plaster and gypsum related products) £2.50 per bag/sheet
• Asbestos £8.15 per bag/sheet
• Tyres £1.40 per tyre

A "bag" is defined as "a small, plastic sand/aggregate bag from standard DIY stores that can be safely lifted by one person".

A "sheet of plasterboard" is a "standard large sheet".  Plasterboard waste can only be accepted if it is separated from other materials, due to restrictions imposed on land-filling plasterboard and the need to keep gypsum clean for reuse in new plasterboard or on land reclamation activities.  For example, the removal of ceramic tiles may be easier if the plasterboard has been soaked in water.

A "sheet of asbestos" is a "small domestic roofing sheet or similar".  For the avoidance of doubt; any item which the site staff deem to contain asbestos will be treated as asbestos (regardless of any analysis or certificates that may have been obtained to state the material is asbestos free) and restrictions/charges will apply.

Please note that all asbestos must be double wrapped/bagged in strong plastic and pre-booked - see Asbestos for further information.

Night storage heaters containing asbestos are acceptable at this site free of charge.

For further information about charging see Chargeable Waste.

Non-acceptable

• Food/putrescible/excess non-recyclable waste: not acceptable at this site.  Your nearest alternative is Exton Road Recycling Centre, Exeter by arrangement only.  Please contact your local district/city council in the first instance.
• Sharps/clinical items: please contact your local district/city council
• Animals/animal bedding
• Commercial/trade waste.  Trade green waste and cardboard is acceptable at this site for a charge by arrangement only, see Trade Recycling for further details.
• Fireworks, flares, explosives and ammunition - please contact your local police for advice.

Reuse

Reusable goods are set aside/salvaged for for re-use at this Recycling Centre.

All such goods are offered for sale by the contractors/site operators, and any money made contributes towards site operating costs.

Prices of items for sale are determined by the Contractor and not Devon County Council.  As stock is continuously changing, there is no guarantee of specific items being available.

Please note that sales of electrical goods are not permitted to the general public

Health and Safety

All recycling centre users must adhere to the following rules when on site:-

   Gloves Should Be Worn When Unloading

   Wear Suitable Footwear

   Avoid Lifting Heavy Weights

   Children and Animals Must Remain in Vehicles

   No Smoking

   Site Speed Limit

   Please See Site Staff if Disposing of Hazardous Materials

   Take Care on Steps

Assistance

Reasonable assistance will be provided when requested.

How to get there: Pinbrook Road Recycling Centre, Exeter EX4 8HH

Please refer to the following directions or select the Pinbrook Road map.

Coming from Exeter (Pinhoe Road), at the traffic lights by Sainsburys turn left onto Exhibition Way.  Pinbrook Road is the first right.  The Recycling Centre is signed from Pinhoe Road.

For further enquiries call Devon County Council Waste Management on 0845 155 1010