Where are the Borough's Recycling Centres?

There are a number of centres around the Borough, at which you can recycle a variety of materials. In addition, the Civic Amenity Site at Blenheim Road offers a wide range of material recycling opportunities.

Use the My Epsom and Ewell pages to find your nearest Recycling Centre and when your kerbside recycling is picked up - just enter your postcode!

Don't forget that kerbside recycling is available for newspapers, glass, cans and clothing and that you can subscribe to our kerbside garden waste recycling service.

What can be recycled and where?

A range of materials is recyclable, but space restrictions mean that it is not possible to recycle all materials at all sites.  The table below tells you what can be recycled at which site, with more detailed information on the materials we need for recycling shown underneath.

We have increased the number of plastic bottle recycling bins at Sainsbury's supermarket, Kiln Lane, Epsom from ten to sixteen. The bins are emptied seven days a week. We have also placed plastic bottle bins at our Timbercroft/Kingston Road recycling centre.

Location	Glass	Cans	Newspaper & Magazines	Cardboard
Bourne Hall	X		X
Christ Church car park, Epsom Common	X	X
Cox Lane	X	X	X
Depot Road car park, Epsom	X	X	X	X
Dorset House car park, Ewell Village	X	X	X
Horton Country Park car park	X	X	X
Horton Park Golf & Country Club, Hook Road	X
Kingston Road/Timbercroft	X	X	X
Ruxley Lane Shops	X	X	X
Sainsbury's, Kiln Lane, Epsom car park	X	X	X	X
Stoneleigh Broadway	X	X
Town Hall car park	X	X	X
Wandgas Sports & Social Club, Grafton Road	X	X	X	X
Vale Road shops	X	X	X

Location	Plastic Bottles	Textiles, clothing & shoes	Printer cartridges	Other
Bourne Hall
Christ Church car park, Epsom Common		X		Paper-based drinks and liquid-food cartons.
Cox Lane
Depot Road car park, Epsom		X
Dorset House car park, Ewell Village		X	X
Horton Country Park car park		X
Horton Park Golf & Country Club, Hook Road
Kingston Road/Timbercroft	X			Paper-based drinks and liquid-food cartons.
Ruxley Lane Shops
Sainsbury's, Kiln Lane, Epsom car park	X	X		Paper-based drinks and liquid-food cartons. Books. CDs and tapes.
Stoneleigh Broadway
Town Hall car park		X
Wandgas Sports & Social Club, Grafton Road
Vale Road shops		X

Don't forget that a wide range of further materials can also be recycled at the Civic Amenity Site ("the tip") in Blenheim Road, Epsom.

What exactly can be recycled at Recycling Centres?

Plastic bottles:

• Please recycle: plastic drinks bottles, water bottles, milk bottles, shampoo bottles, detergent and bleach bottles.
• Please help us by: washing & squashing bottles before recycling - if you squash the bottle and then put the cap back on it stays squashed.  This helps to significantly increase the amount of plastics we can collect.  Thank you.
• Please DON'T recycle: anything which isn't a plastic bottle!  Items such as food packaging and miscellaneous plastics will simply be rejected for recycling by the processor.

Paper-based drinks and liquid-food cartons:

• Please recycle: paper-based drinks and liquid-food cartons. 
• Please DON'T recycle: plastic bottles, packaging for non-liquid foods.

Glass bottles & jars:

• Please recycle: all colours of glass bottles and jars (please rinse before recycling and discard corks, caps & lids).
• Please DON'T recycle: milk bottles, drinking glasses, window glass, Pyrex, light bulbs or ceramics.

Cans:

• Please recycle: all food & drinks cans, both steel and aluminium (please rinse before recycling but you don't need to remove labels).  You can also recycle metal biscuit and chocolate tins, for example.
• Please DON'T recycle: tin foil, paint cans or miscellaneous metal items such as pans or cutlery.

Newspapers & Magazines:

• Please recycle: all white newspapers, all magazines (even glossies), brochures, catalogues, letters, junk mail, shredded white paper, white envelopes and white telephone directories.
• Shredded paper is ideal for recycling but please ensure that extra care is taken when tipping into recycling banks.  Wind-blown shredded paper can create a litter nuisance.
• Please DON'T recycle: non-white newspapers, non-white telephone directories, cardboard, greetings cards or non-white envelopes.  However, don't forget that you can recycle all of these items in the Cardboard banks (see below)!

Clothing:

• Please recycle: clean clothing, shoes tied in pairs, belts, handbags etc.
• Please DON'T recycle: wet, heavily soiled or oily clothes, single shoes.

Books:

• Books are taken by Oxfam for resale in their shops.  Please recycle books in good condition - if they are unsuitable for resale, please place them in the Cardboard, Junk Mail & Mixed Paper banks (see below).

Cardboard, junk mail and mixed paper:

• Please recycle: cardboard boxes, cardboard packaging, cereal boxes, greetings cards, non-white envelopes, coloured paper, coloured newspapers (e.g. Financial Times), wallpaper as long as it is not plastic coated, Yellow Pages, books which would be unsuitable for the book bank (see below).
• Please DON'T recycle: anything that could go in to the Newspapers & Magazines collection, paper-based drinks or liquid-food cartons (e.g. yoghurt/fruit juices/milk - these have wax and plastic content which corrupts the recycling process for our cardboard processor and should be recycled in the special bins provided).

Related links

Kerbside recycling
Recycling at the Civic Amenity Site, Blenheim Road
Home composting
Garden waste kerbside recycling service
Domestic refuse collection
Collection of Bulky Items
Commercial waste
Recycling in Epsom & Ewell