Opening days:

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

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
• Fridges/freezers
• TVs / computer monitors
• Plastic bottles
• Clean polystyrene
• DIY engine oil
• Car batteries
• Reusable goods
• Tetrapaks
• Gas bottles

Restricted

• Rubble/hardcore, soil and general construction waste: 12 large bags/0.5 tonnes in 6 month period
• 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
• Asbestos acceptable by arrangement only, see Asbestos for further information

Non-acceptable

• Commercial/trade waste (green waste and cardboard acceptable at certain Recycling Centres by arrangement only, see Trade Recycling)
• 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

Non-acceptable waste is chargeable at Deep Moor landfill site 01805 623496, Exeter transfer station 01392 666420 and Heathfield landfill site 01626 853522 via a weighbridge

How to get there: Okehampton Recycling Centre, Okehampton EX20 1UD

Please refer to the following directions or select the Okehampton map

From the town centre travel eastwards towards Exeter along East Street and Exeter Road, after approximately one mile turn left into Exeter Road Industrial Estate.  Take the next right into Hambledown Road, then left into Merrivale Road, and the site can be found at the end of the road.