Recycling Centres
Tavistock, Crowndale
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 and 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
- 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
- Flat glass (e.g. window glass)
- Fridges/freezers
- TVs / computer monitors
- Plastic bottles
- Clean mixed plastic packaging
(8KB - pdf help) - Tetrapaks
- 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
- Food: acceptable by arrangement only. Please contact your local district/city council in the first instance
- Noxious weeds (606KB - pdf help)
Chargeable
- Soil/Rubble (including bricks, blocks, tiles, paving slabs, concrete posts, sanitary ware etc)
- Plasterboard (including plaster and gypsum related products)
- Asbestos
- Tyres
Non-acceptable
- Sharps/clinical items: please contact your local district/city council
- Animals/animal bedding
- Commercial/trade waste (green waste and cardboard chargeable by arrangement only, see Trade Recycling
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
Assistance
Reasonable assistance will be provided when requested.
How to get there: Crowndale Recycling Centre, Tavistock PL19 8JR
Please refer to the following directions or select the Crowndale map.
From the town centre take the A386 towards Plymouth, after negotiating the Drakes Monument Roundabout turn right into Crowndale Road (just before the mini-roundabout).
The site can be found on the left hand side after approximately one mile (just past the South West Water sewerage treatment plant).
