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Recycling Centres
Crowndale, Tavistock
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 (e.g. window glass)
- Fridges/freezers
- TVs / computer monitors
- Plastic bottles
- Clean mixed plastic packaging (23KB - pdf help)
- Tetrapaks
- 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
- 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, Exeter transfer station 01392 666420 and Heathfield landfill site 01626 853522 via a weighbridge.
How to get there: Crowndale Recycling Centre, Tavistock PL19 8JR
Please refer to the following directions or select the Crowndale map.
From the town centre take the A386 towards Plymouth, after negotiating the Drakes Monument Roundabout turn right into Crowndale Road (just before the mini-roundabout).
The site can be found on the left hand side after approximately one mile (just past the South West Water sewerage treatment plant).