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Minehead recycling centre

Address: Minehead Recycling Centre, Mart Road Industrial Estate, Minehead, TA24 5BJ

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About Minehead recycling centre

  • This site allows pedestrian access.  Please use the pedestrian gateway and follow the marked footpath at all times. Pedestrian access may be restricted on occasion to control numbers.
  • All recycling sites accept natural undecorated Christmas trees for composting.

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Reduce, Reuse or Pass it on

Reusing items gives them a new lease of life and helps reduce waste. Visit Pass it on and furniture reuse page to find local options for donating, borrowing or sharing items.

Vehicle and trailer permits

When visiting any Somerset recycling site with your household waste, your vehicle or trailer may need a permit. Both vehicle and trailer size are restricted. Permits are free, only available to Somerset residents, and must be displayed on all visits.

Apply for a Recycling Site waste permit

Opening times

All Somerset Recycling Centres are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

This schedule applies until 31 March 2026

  • Today:9am to 6pm
  • Monday:9am to 5pm
  • Tuesday:Closed
  • Wednesday:9am to 5pm
  • Thursday:9am to 5pm
  • Friday:9am to 5pm
  • Saturday:9am to 4pm
  • Sunday:9am to 4pm
  • Bank holidays:All centres are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Materials, restrictions and charges

Site camera

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This is not a live video feed, it is a still image that refreshes regularly. For details about the recycling site queue cameras, please visit our recycling site queue cameras page.

Queue camera feed

Material Accepted

  • Asbestos
  • Batteries
  • Cans (drink and food)
  • Cardboard - including hardback books
  • Commercial waste
  • Electrical appliances
  • Fluorescent tubes
  • Fridges and freezers
  • Furniture
  • Garden waste
  • Gas bottles
  • Glass bottles and jars
  • Low-energy light bulbs
  • Mattresses
  • Mobile phones
  • Oil – cooking and engine
  • Paint, water-based
  • Paper
  • Plastic pots, tubs, trays and all plastic bottles
  • Refuse
  • Scrap metal
  • Shoes (tied in pairs)
  • Smoke alarms (domestic)
  • Soil and hardcore
  • Textiles (clothes etc)
  • Toner cartridges
  • Tyres
  • Vehicle parts
  • Wood

Material Not Accepted

  • Ammunition and explosives
  • Fireworks
  • Medicines
  • Mercury
  • Petrol and diesel
  • Roofing felt containing bitumen
  • Cartons/Tetra Pak and plastic-lined paper cups
  • Plasterboard

Vehicle Restrictions

When visiting any Somerset recycling site with your household waste, your vehicle or trailer may need a permit. Both vehicle and trailer size are restricted. Permits are free, only available to Somerset residents, and must be displayed on all visits.

Apply for permit

Commercial Vehicles

Commercial waste recycling facilities exist at Minehead.

More information on business waste

Charges

Charges

Charges must be paid by card – not cash or cheque – at all sites for disposal of materials not classified as household waste: asbestos; gas bottles; hardcore, including stone, rubble, clay, tiles, ceramic/porcelain sinks, baths, toilets and construction materials; plasterboard; soil; tyres and vehicle parts.

More information about on site charges

Household waste

There is no charge for the disposal of household waste.

Asbestos disposal

Asbestos is accepted at Minehead, but charges apply and must be paid in advance online. For information on safe disposal and charges for asbestos disposal at recycling centres.

More information about asbestos disposal at recycling centres

Vehicle parts disposal

Vehicle parts disposal available at Minehead. Charges apply.

More information about vehicle part recycling charges

Location

Address:

Minehead Recycling Centre, Mart Road Industrial Estate, Minehead, TA24 5BJ

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