Materials recycled
Recycling Centres and Community Recycling Sites have facilities to recycle a wide range of items and materials, as listed in table and notes below. Sites also accept non-recyclable household waste, including hazardous items for safe disposal, but please separate as much as possible for recycling.
| Batteries – car lead-acid
Batteries – portable household Books (1) Cans – drink & food Cans – empty metal paint (2) Car & vehicle parts (3) Cardboard Carrier bags CDs, DVDs & Videos (1) Drink/liquid cartons (4) Electrical appliances Fridges & freezers Garden waste (except Japanese Knotweed & Common Ragwort, also see advice on dieback of ash trees) Gas bottles (charges apply)* Glass bottles & jars
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Hardcore (charges apply)*
Mobile phones Oil – cooking oil Oil – engine oil Paper Plasterboard (5) Plastic bottles (6) Scrap metal Shoes Soil (charges apply)* Textiles Toner cartridges Tyres (charges apply)* Window glass (7) Wood
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* See: Charges for hardcore, soil, tyres and gas bottles
We publish details of how materials are recycled, including an annual end-use register.
Notes with further information and details of sites without these facilities:
(1) Book and music banks for British Heart Foundation (good quality resaleable CDs, DVDs and videos only) at: Coleford, Dulcote, Street & Somerton. Unusable books can also be put in with cardbaord for recycling, but please consider donating good quality books to charity shops or finding other ways to allow them to be reused.
(2) Empty or dried out metal paint cans are accepted for recycling in scrap metal skips at all recycling sites. Empty plastic cans are not accepted for recycling and so should be put with waste for disposal.
(3) Car and vehicle parts: sites only accept car batteries, engine oil and tyres; other parts of vehicles are not classified as household waste and need to go to scrap dealers or commercial waste companies, who can be found in classified directories, such as Yellow Pages.
(4) Cartons (inc. Tetrapak) only at: Bridgwater, Chard, Crewkerne, Dulcote, Frome, Highbridge, Minehead, Street, Taunton, Wellington, Williton & Yeovil.
(5) Plasterboard only at: Bridgwater, Chard, Crewkerne, Dulverton, Frome, Highbridge, Street, Taunton, Williton & Yeovil.
(6) Plastic bottles at all sites except: Cheddar.
(7) Window glass only at: Bridgwater, Chard, Highbridge, Taunton, Wellington & Yeovil.