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Plastic crates

Can I recycle it?

Plastic crates are not currently collected as part of your recycling collection. You can take clean plastic crates to be recycled at 7 of our Household Waste Recycling Centres across Cornwall.

Recycling centres with recycling banks for bulky plastics are:

  • Bude
  • Connon Bridge
  • Launceston
  • United Mines
  • St Austell
  • Truro
  • Falmouth

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Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC)

View our Household Waste Recycling Centres to find

  • location maps
  • opening times
  • materials accepted

You can also find your nearest centre by entering your postcode on our my area page.

For safety reasons, no public pedestrian access is allowed through the entrance or exit gates at any of our household waste recycling centres.

We now take commercial waste at our St Erth and Launceston HWRCs. You’ll need to book a slot in advance using our online booking system. To find out more, visit: Commercial Waste at HWRCs.

We only take waste from households at our other sites. 

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