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Recycling Centres
Bideford Recycling Centre
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
- Flat glass
- Fridges/freezers
- TVs / computer monitors
- Plastic bottles
- Clean mixed plastic packaging (23KB - pdf help)
- DIY engine oil
- Vegetable oil
- Car batteries
- Domestic batteries
- Carrier bags
- Spectacles
- Ink cartridges
- Reusable goods
- Mobile phones
- 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
- Asbestos: acceptable by arrangement only, see Asbestos for further information
- 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
- 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: Bideford Recycling Centre, Bideford EX39 3QT
Please refer to the following directions or select the Bideford map.
Coming from the A39 turn off at the Atlantic Village roundabout, follow the Clovelly Road for one mile, then turn right into the Caddsdown Industrial Estate. Follow the signs for "Recycling Centre".
Coming from Bideford take the Clovelly Road towards Atlantic Village, turn left into Caddsdown Industrial Estate (half a mile before reaching the Atlantic Village). Follow the signs for "Recycling Centre".