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Recycling Centres
Knowle Hill, Exmouth
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)
- 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
- 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: Knowle Hill Recycling Centre, Exmouth EX8 5BP
Please refer to the following directions or select the Knowle Hill map
From Exmouth, take the B3178 towards Budleigh Salterton. Go out of Exmouth past the turning into Liverton Business Park and after a further kilometre the site is on the left just before the roundabout at Leeford.