All our tidy tips are open seven days a week, from 0900 - 1700. Please arrive 10 minutes before closing time to allow enough time to unload (as no waste will be accepted after that time).

Bank holidays, Christmas and New Year opening hours

The only days our tidy tips close are:

• Christmas Day
• Boxing Day
• New Year's Day

Tidy tips will close at 1300 on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

• Glass bottles and jars
• Cardboard (including corrugated cardboard)
• Green garden waste
• Wood
• Newspaper and paper
• Aluminium cans
• Textiles
• Scrap metal
• White electrical goods
• Household furniture (beds, mattresses, wardrobes, chest of drawers etc...) 
• Car and household batteries
• Light bulbs
• Used engine and cooking oil
• Gas cylinders
• Paint
• Fridges and freezers (you will need a permit for this*)
• Tyres (you will need a permit for these**)

* Restricted to ONE of each within a 12 month period

** Restricted to TWO tyres within a 12 month period

Our sites cannot accept:

• Asbestos
• Trade / commercial waste
• Hazardous waste
• Sectioned trees (with a girth larger than 30cm)
• Animal bedding and faeces

Please note that trade / commercial waste includes waste generated by a builder / gardener / glazier or other tradesman working in a domestic property.

The cost of waste removal should be included in their quote. Only small quantities of DIY / demolition waste such as soil, brick, rubble, doors and windows will be accepted with a permit, even if from your own home. 

It may be advisable in some instances to hire a skip.

The site staff will help you at any of our Household Waste Recycling Centres but at weekends, the sites can become busy. Please try to be patient or, if you can, try to visit on a weekday instead.

A waste permit to use the Household Waste Recycling Centre is needed for DIY waste or if you are using anything other than a car eg. van, pick-up or large trailer. Permits are free. Please allow 2-3 days for the permit to arrive.

You will need to take your permit with you when you visit the site. Click to view the acceptance leaflet (PDF 385KB).

DIY waste examples

Maximum 6 items

• 1 bath tub
• 1 toilet pan
• 1 cistern
• 1 wash basin
• 1 water tank
• 1 standard door
• 1 kitchen worktop (maximum length 1.5 metres)
• 1 kitchen unit
• 1 window frame
• 1 tree stump (maximum 100mm diameter)
• 1 fence panel and post
• 1 sack (100 litres) of soil or rubble
• 2 sacks (100 litres of other DIY waste eg. tiles)

Fridges and freezers (you will need a permit for this*)

* Restricted to ONE of each within a 12 month period

Tyres (you will need a permit for these**)

** Restricted to TWO tyres within a 12 month period

Ideally all tyres should disposed of by the garage / service centre when the tyre is changed.

A waste permit to use the Household Waste Recycling Centre is needed for DIY waste or if you are using anything other than a car eg. van, pick-up or large trailer.

Permits are free. Please allow 2-3 days for the permit to arrive.

Apply for a household waste disposal permit by calling 0300 300 8080.