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Recycling Centres
Anvil Corner, Holsworthy
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 (23KB - pdf help)
- DIY engine oil
- Vegetable oil
- Car batteries
- Domestic batteries
- Reusable goods
- 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
- Noxious weeds (606KB - pdf help)
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: acceptable at certain Recycling Centres by arrangement only - see Asbestos for further information.
- 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, Exeter transfer station 01392 666420 and Heathfield landfill site 01626 853522 via a weighbridge
How to get there: Anvil Corner Recycling Centre, Holsworthy EX22 6NR
Please refer to the following directions or select the Anvil Corner map
From Holsworthy: take the A3072 towards Hatherleigh, the site is approximately two and a half miles from Holsworthy on the right.
From Halwill Junction: take the A3079 towards Holsworthy. At the T Junction with the A3072 turn left to Holsworthy. The site is approximately three miles along this road on the left.