Household Recycling Centres

In North Wiltshire we are now recycling around 20% of our household waste, but this means we now need to recycle even more to reduce the 80% that still ends up in landfill sites.

We need to protect our environment, as we cannot continue to bury millions of tonnes of rubbish every year. In addition to the Kerbside Recycling collections, a wider variety of materials can be taken to the County Councils Household Recycling Centres.

What can you take?:

Car batteries, tyres and engine oil
Rubble and soil
Garden waste
Plastics- only ones with the numbers 1, 2 and 3
Cardboard
Tins of paint
Glass bottles and jars
Steel and aluminium cans and tins
Textiles, clothes, curtains, blankets and shoes
Newspapers, junk mail, white paper, magazines and yellow pages
Fluorescent light tubes
Metals and timber
White goods
Pesticides and chemicals
Household furniture items

Woodchip can be recycled at: Purton, Stanton St Quintin, Devizes and Melksham.

The household recycling centres are open 7 days a week

April to October

9am-7pm (Wed & Thu).

9am-5pm (all other days).

November to March

9am - 4pm.

Please note: Trade waste cannot be taken to a household recycling centre

Please click here for current opening hours (external link)

Please see below for the locations of the Household Recycling Centres:
Stanton St Quintin: B4122 Sutton Benger road (J17 of the M4). link to map
Purton: Mopes Lane. link to map
Lower Compton, Calne: Old Camp Landfill Site, off the A4. link to map
Melksham: Lancaster Road, Bowerhill Industrial Estate. link to map