Aston Clinton Household Waste Recycling Centre

What we don’t accept

• Animal bedding, carcasses and faeces
• Contaminated materials presenting a direct contact risk
• Unsectioned trees
• Flammable liquids and explosives e.g. petrol / fireworks / ammunitions

What we recycle at our HWRCs

• Cardboard
• Car batteries (up to 2 per year) and domestic batteries (eg torch type and small rechargeable)
• Car tyres (up to 5 car tyres per year)
• Cooking Oil
• Engine Filters and waste engine oil (up to 10 litres per year)
• Glass bottles and jars
• Garden waste
• Gas bottles
• Fluorescent tubes includes all energy saving fluorescent bulbs not just the strip lighting (up to 4 fluorescent tubes per year)
• Hardcore (eg bricks, rubble)
• Household Electrical Goods
• Man Made Wood (eg Chipboard or MDF)
• Paper – excluding Christmas wrapping paper
• Scrap metal including fridges, foil and drinks cans
• Soil
• Textiles
• Wood

We also accept other non hazardous waste from members of the public if it is their own personal waste.

Re-useable items

Suitable waste items deposited at our sites may be made available for re-use. This recycling of re-useable items includes a shop at the Aston Clinton site, near Aylesbury and the High Heavens, High Wycombe site.

Accepted at some centres with conditions

• Asbestos and garden chemicals – further rules apply
• Plasterboard or plaster (accepted at Amersham, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Beaconsfield, High Heavens and Langley HWRC only)
• Commercial / trade waste –  please note our trade facilities operate with different opening hours and there is a charge for disposal.  Please see Commercial waste for more details.