Devon County Council

Opening days:

Open all year round (except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day)

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)
• 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: Deep Moor Recycling Centre, Torrington EX38 7JA

Please refer to the following directions or select the Deep Moor map.

From Torrington, take the B3227, on entering the village of High Bullen turn left at the cross roads.  The site can be found on the left after approximately half a mile.

For further enquiries call Devon County Council Waste Management on

0845 155 1010