Recycling Centres
Okehampton
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
- Fridges/freezers
- TVs / computer monitors
- Plastic bottles
- Clean mixed plastic packaging
(8KB - pdf help) - DIY engine oil
- Vegetable oil
- Car batteries
- Domestic batteries
- Tetrapaks
- 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)
- Asbestos
- Tyres
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
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: 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.
