You can find your nearest recycling centre visiting the database above. You can search by your location or by the material that you would like to recycle.
There are over 30 recycling bring sites/centres in Guildford Borough providing a collection point for a wide range of materials:
- Glass bottles & jars
- Paper
- Cardboard
- Tins, cans & aerosols
- Plastic bottles
- Textiles & shoes
- Books
- Music - cds, vinyl, DVDs, cassette tapes
- Aluminium foil
- Engine oil
- Printer Cartridges
If you have other items which you no longer want, such as computers, furniture or tools, please don't simply throw them away. Use our Recycling Directory to find a way of either reusing or recycling instead. The 2006 Recycling Directory is available as a PDF. It is 1.5 MB in size so may take a short time to open or download, but it is worth the wait!
To view this document you will need to download the Acrobat Reader.
We are no longer able to accept yoghurt pots and margarine tubs in our plastics recycling banks because our merchant had access to a very limited market for these materials. We can now only accept the following:
Items that can be recycled at our plastics recycling banks
| Yes please |
No thanks |
| Drinks cans |
Any other type of plastic including: |
| Food tins |
Margarine/ice cream tubs |
| Plastic milk bottles |
Butter/cheese pots |
| Plastic juice bottles |
Yoghurt pots |
| Squash bottles |
Plastic bags or cling film |
| Fizzy drinks and water bottles |
Fruit punnets |
| Shampoo bottles |
Bottle tops |
| Bubble bath bottles |
Food trays |
| Washing machine powder/liquid bottles |
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| Fabric conditioner bottles |
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| Washing up liquid bottles |
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| Bleach and cleaning bottles |
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Printer cartridge recycling banks have arrived in the borough! You can now recycle your old computer printer cartridges at four bring sites across the borough, look out for the purple recycling banks at:
- Tescos in Park Barn
- The Scout Hut in Shalford
- Millbrook car park in the town centre
- The Spectrum car park
Working with Environmental Business Products Ltd, one of the world's leading inkjet remanufacturer, we have been able to provide this great new scheme.
Recycling cartridges not only reduces waste and pressure on landfill, it also reduces the need for raw materials such as oil, used to make the plastic. Each inkjet cartridge that is recycled saves the equivalent of around 1.5 pints of oil, while a recycled laserjet save nearly 2 pints! Remanufactured cartridges work just like new and cost far less.
Cartridge recycling will also help to save tiny lives as it raises funds for Tommy's, the baby charity, which carries out valuable research into premature death, miscarriage and stillbirth.