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Bideford Recycling Centre

Caddsdown Industrial Estate

Bideford Recycling Centre

Bideford

EX39 3QT

Open all year round (except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day)

Opening Times
Summer (April - Sept) Winter (Oct - Mar)
Monday - Friday
8:00am - 6:00pm Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm
Saturday - Sunday
10:00am - 6:00pm Saturday - Sunday 10:00am - 4:30pm
Don't Let Devon go to Waste!List of acceptable materials:


Recyclable materials
Bulky household items
e.g. furniture, carpets, household electrical equipment

Recycling facilities available:

Acceptable

  • Glass bottles and jars
  • Newspapers and magazines
  • Card/Yellow Pages
  • Aluminium and steel cans
  • Textiles
  • Garden/green waste
  • Timber
  • Metal/domestic appliances
  • Flat glass
  • Fridges/freezers
  • TVs / computer monitors
  • Plastic bottles
  • Clean mixed plastic packaging
  • DIY engine oil
  • Vegetable oil
  • Car batteries
  • Domestic batteries
  • Carrier bags
  • Spectacles
  • Ink cartridges
  • Reusable goods
  • Mobile phones
  • Gas bottles
  • Energy saving light bulbs (recycled with fluorescent tubes)


Restricted

  • Rubble/hardcore, soil and general DIY/construction waste
    12 large bags/0.5 tonnes in 6 month period
  • Plasterboard image - 2 sheets/"rubble sacks" per household per month
  • 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 only
  • Fluorescent tubes - 5 tubes over a 6 month period
  • Asbestos: acceptable by arrangement only
  • Noxious weeds


Non-acceptable

  • 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
  • Commercial/trade waste
    (green waste and cardboard chargeable by arrangement only)

Assistance

Reasonable assistance will be provided when requested.
 
Bideford Recycling CentreHow to get there:

Coming from the A39 turn off at the Atlantic Village roundabout, follow the Clovelly Road for one mile, then turn right into the Caddsdown Industrial Estate.  Follow the signs for "Recycling Centre".


Coming from Bideford take the Clovelly Road towards Atlantic Village, turn left into Caddsdown Industrial Estate (half a mile before reaching the Atlantic Village).  Follow the signs for "Recycling Centre".

 

For further enquiries call Devon County Council Waste Management on 0845 155 1010

Bideford Town Guide

The new Town Guide can be downloaded from the web site and hard copies are available throughout the town. It is packed with information and great for those of you wanting to deliver information in hard copy form!

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Town Council NewsletterDownload the latest edition of the Town Council Newsletter - Hard copies can also be obtained from the library or the Town Hall or you can view an online version by following the link below. Also distributed through local newspapers....Download the latest newsletter

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The Quality Parish and Town Council Scheme was launched in 2003 following the Government's Rural White Paper, 2000. The aim of the Scheme is to provide benchmark minimum standards for parish and town councils. The Scheme is supported by six National Stakeholders, the Commission for Rural Communities, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Local Government Association, the National Association of Local Councils and the Society of Local Council Clerks. Open a copy of the new guidance here...