{"id":317,"date":"2016-02-05T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T11:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/recycling-centres\/gas-bottles"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:11:02","slug":"gas-bottles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/recycling-centres\/gas-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For health and safety reasons, our recycling centres do not accept non-household gas bottles. Acceptable types\u00a0are listed below (quantities are restricted to five of each type, within a six month period).<\/p>\n<ul class=\"accordion \" data-accordion data-allow-all-closed=\"true\" data-multi-expand=\"true\" ><li class=\"accordion-item\" data-accordion-item>\r\n<a href=\"#mac1\" id=\"head1\" role=\"tab\" class=\"accordion-title\" aria-controls=\"mac1\">Acceptable <\/a><div id=\"mac1\" aria-labelledby=\"head1\" class=\"accordion-content\" data-tab-content><div class=\"targetclass\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Standard low-pressure gas cylinders, for example, gas heaters cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>Small canisters (camping gas, soda stream or equivalent).<\/li>\n<li>Fire extinguishers (household type only).<\/li>\n<li>Helium (party balloon type).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"accordion-item\" data-accordion-item>\r\n<a href=\"#mac2\" id=\"head2\" role=\"tab\" class=\"accordion-title\" aria-controls=\"mac2\">Not acceptable <\/a><div id=\"mac2\" aria-labelledby=\"head2\" class=\"accordion-content\" data-tab-content><div class=\"targetclass\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Refrigerant cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>Brewery cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>Food grade nitrous oxide canisters.<\/li>\n<li>Medical cylinders including oxygen.<\/li>\n<li>Diving cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>Breathing apparatus.<\/li>\n<li>Acetylene\/welding cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>Industrial high-pressure cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>Industrial adhesive\/froth packs.<\/li>\n<li>LPG auto gas tanks.<\/li>\n<li>Water purification tanks.<\/li>\n<li>Other unmarked cylinders where the content is unknown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Cylinders remain the property of the gas company and should be returned to a local dealer of the company owning the cylinder. Medical cylinders should be returned to the issuing medical centre.<\/p>\n<p>The following four parent companies have responsibility for the majority of cylinders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calor Gas (Brooksight Ltd) Tel: 0207 731 1221.<\/li>\n<li>BP (Synergy Asset Services Ltd) Tel: <span class=\"ui-provider gq b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">01227 462008.<\/li>\n<li>Flogas Tel: 0845 6015176.<\/li>\n<li>BOC Tel: 0800 111333.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Calor Gas are currently offering \u00a37.50 for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calor.co.uk\/gas-bottles\/buying-gas-bottles\/gas-refills-exchanges-returns\" rel=\"noopener\"> empty\/unwanted Calor gas bottles<\/a> if returned directly to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calor.co.uk\/gas-bottles\/calor-stockists-and-dealers\/calor-centres\" rel=\"noopener\">Calor Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uklpg.org\/advice\/lpg-cylinder-supply-and-return\" rel=\"noopener\">Liquid Petroleum Gas Association website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Soda Stream gas canisters (empty, full\/part full) contact Soda Stream Customer care on 0845 601 0093 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:customer.care-uk@sodastream.com\"><strong>customer.care-uk@sodastream.com<\/strong><\/a>. They will arrange to send you a label to return the canisters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tabs\"><ul class=\"tabs\" data-responsive-accordion-tabs=\"accordion medium-tabs large-tabs\"  role=\"tablist\" id=\"tablist\" data-multi-expand=\"true\" data-allow-all-closed=\"true\" ><\/ul><div class=\"tabs-content\" data-tabs-content=\"tablist\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For health and safety reasons, our recycling centres do not accept non-household gas bottles. Acceptable types\u00a0are listed below (quantities are restricted to five of each type, within a six month period). Cylinders remain the property of the gas company and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/recycling-centres\/gas-bottles\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Gas bottles\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 16:20:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions\/5394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}