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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.

For further enquiries call Devon County Council Waste Management on

0845 155 1010

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