Recycling Centres
Exmouth, Knowle Hill
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
- Ink cartridges
- 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
- 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)
- Tyres
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: chargeable at certain Recycling Centres (must be pre-booked - see Asbestos for further information)
- 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: 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.
