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Recycling Centres
Seven Brethren, Barnstaple
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)
- 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
- 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)
- Asbestos: acceptable at certain Recycling Centres by arrangement only, see Asbestos for further information
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: Seven Brethren Recycling Centre, Barnstaple EX31 2AS
Please refer to the following directions or select the Seven Brethren map
The site is located on the Seven Brethren Industrial Estate to the south of the river, follow the signs for the North Devon Leisure Centre. Go past the leisure centre, follow the road around to the right and left, the site can be found at the end of the road.