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Recycling Centres

Woods Farm, Sidmouth

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)
  • 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

  • Commercial/trade waste (green waste and cardboard chargeable at certain Recycling Centres, see Trade Recycling)
  • 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

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: Woods Farm Recycling Centre, Sidmouth EX10 0JS

Please refer to the following directions or select the Woods Farm map

From Newton Poppleford: take the A3052 towards Sidmouth. At the Bowd Inn turn left towards Ottery St Mary. The site is about half a mile along this road on the left.

From Sidmouth: join the A3052, turning right at the Bowd Inn. The site is approximately half a mile along this road on the left.

For further enquiries call Devon County Council Waste Management on

0845 155 1010

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