What Can I Recycle at a Household Waste Recycling Centre?
What our Newtown Road and Padworth centres can and cannot accept.
Before you visit one of our recycling centres, you will need to book an appointment and hold a valid permit.
If there is an issue with disposal or recycling of certain materials, we may have to temporarily stop accepting those materials without notice.
Batteries and vapes can be taken to both of our sites for disposal. Nitrous oxide canisters can only be accepted at Newtown Road recycling centre for disposal.
For more information about where you can recycle vapes, please click here.
We have two recycling centres in West Berkshire:
| Items | Newtown Road | Padworth |
| Asbestos | Yes | No |
| Batteries | Yes | Yes |
| Bicycles | Yes | Yes |
| Black bag rubbish | Yes | Yes |
| Books** | Yes | Yes |
| Bric-a-brac | Yes | No |
| Bulky waste | Yes | Yes |
| Car batteries | Yes | Yes |
| Card | Yes | Yes |
| Ceramics* | Yes | Yes |
| Coffee pods (keep plastic and aluminium pods separate) | Yes | Yes |
| Cooking oil | Yes | Yes |
| Food and drink cartons | Yes | Yes |
| Furniture for reuse | Yes | No |
| Garden waste | Yes | Yes |
| Gas bottles (including nitrous oxide canisters) | Yes | No |
| Hardcore and rubble* | Yes | Yes |
| Household and garden chemicals | Yes | Yes |
| Large and small appliances | Yes | Yes |
| Lawn-mowers (petrol tank must be empty) | Yes | Yes |
| Mixed glass (bottles and jars) | Yes | Yes |
| Light bulbs | Yes | Yes |
| Mixed textiles and clothing** | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile phones | Yes | Yes |
| Paint (including Community RePaint) | Yes | Yes |
| Paper | Yes | Yes |
| Plasterboard* | Yes | Yes |
| Plastic bottles and cans | Yes | Yes |
| Plastic pots, tubs and trays | Yes | Yes |
| Printer cartridges | Yes | Yes |
| Scrap metal | Yes | Yes |
| Shoes | Yes | Yes |
| Soil* | Yes | Yes |
| Toys | Yes | Yes |
| TVs and monitors | Yes | Yes |
| Tyres* | Yes | Yes |
| Used engine oil | Yes | Yes |
| Vapes | Yes | Yes |
| Wood and timber | Yes | Yes |
* There is a charge for the disposal of certain quantities of ceramics, rubble, plasterboard and soil and all tyres. Please see our non-household waste charges for information.
** Service availability of these items is subject to change at short notice due to market challenges.
Check the status, location and current opening times of Newtown Road Recycling Centre.
Check the status, location and current opening times of Padworth Recycling Centre.
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