Recycling Centres
Knowle Hill, Exmouth
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
- Textiles
- Garden/green waste
- Timber
- Metal/domestic appliances
- 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
- Gas bottles
- Energy saving light bulbs (recycled with fluorescent tubes)
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
Restricted
- Rubble/hardcore, soil and general DIY/construction waste: 12 large bags/0.5 tonnes in 6 month period
- Plasterboard (63KB - pdf help): 2 sheets/"rubble sacks" per household per month
- Tyres: 5 in 12 months, preferably separated from rims
- Household chemicals (e.g. pesticides, white spirit, bleach, old medicines, oil-based paint): 5 litres in 12 months
- Fluorescent tubes: 5 in 6 month period
- Noxious weeds (606KB - pdf help)
Non-acceptable
- Food: acceptable at certain Recycling Centres 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
- Asbestos: acceptable at certain Recycling Centres by arrangement only, see Asbestos for further information
- Commercial/trade waste (green waste and cardboard chargeable by arrangement only, see Trade Recycling)
Assistance
Reasonable assistance will be provided when requested.
How to get there: Knowle Hill Recycling Centre, Exmouth EX8 5BP
Please refer to the following directions or select the Knowle Hill map
From Exmouth, take the B3178 towards Budleigh Salterton. Go out of Exmouth past the turning into Liverton Business Park and after a further kilometre the site is on the left just before the roundabout at Leeford.
