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
- Textiles
- Garden/green waste
- Timber
- Metal/domestic appliances
- Fridges/freezers
- TVs / computer monitors
- Plastic bottles
- Clean mixed plastic packaging
(8KB - pdf help) - DIY engine oil
- Vegetable oil
- Car batteries
- Domestic batteries
- Reusable goods
- Tetrapaks
- Gas bottles
- Energy saving light bulbs (recycled with fluorescent tubes)
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
- Asbestos acceptable by arrangement only, see Asbestos for further information
- Noxious weeds (606KB - pdf help)
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 and Exeter Transfer Station 01392 666420 via a weighbridge.
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.
