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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.