Recycling Centres
Torr Quarry, Kingsbridge
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
- 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
- Food: acceptable by arrangement only. Please contact your local district/city council in the first instance
- Noxious weeds (606KB - pdf help)
Non-acceptable
- Sharps/clinical items: please contact your local district/city council
- Animals/animal bedding
- Commercial/trade waste: (green waste and cardboard chargeable by arrangement only, see Trade Recycling)
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: Torr Quarry Recycling Centre, Kingsbridge TQ9 7QQ
Please refer to the following directions or select the Torr Quarry map
From Kingsbridge take the A381 towards Halwell, the site is on the left signposted as Torr Quarry Industrial Estate. From Halwell on the A381 travelling towards Kingsbridge, the site is on the right after passing through The Mounts village.
