Waste that comes from the construction, alteration or repair of your home or garden can be taken to some, but not all, community recycling centres (CRCs).
You can take limited amounts for free, but if you exceed the limit you will have to pay a fee.
CRCs that accept construction and DIY waste
The following CRCs accept construction and DIY waste:
If you take construction or DIY waste to any of our other CRCs, staff will redirect you to the nearest CRC that can accept it.
Bringing construction and DIY waste to a CRC
There are limits on the amounts of construction and DIY waste you are allowed to bring to a CRC and how often you can do it. The limits differ depending on whether you bring the waste in a car or in a van, pickup or trailer.
Items you can bring in any amount
You may bring any amount of these items in a car for free:
- Clay flowerpots, garden ornaments and crockery
- Doors
- Fitted kitchen cupboards and wooden or chipboard work surfaces
- Fitted units, such as wardrobes
- Garden wooden fencing posts and panels, garden structures, trellis, pergolas and sheds
- Insulation
- Metal sanitary ware, such as bathroom suites and kitchenware
- Radiators
- Rigid plastic sheeting
- Roofing felt
- Wooden, laminated and vinyl flooring
You can also bring household asbestos waste to Epsom, Guildford and Shepperton CRCs in a car. See our page about how to dispose of asbestos for more details.
Items you may bring in limited amounts
You may bring these items, up to the limits shown below, in a car for free, no more than once every seven days:
- Cement-based products including formed items, concrete and formed concrete items, blocks, slabs, and posts.
- Cement, stone, marble, slate and tile-based flooring
- Ceramics, such as piping and tiles.
- Granite, marble and slate
- Plasterboard
- Porcelain sanitary ware, such as bathroom suites, kitchenware, baths, cisterns, sinks, toilet pans, bidets (whole or broken up)
- Rubble and soils - gravel, hardcore, rock, sand and stone
- Tarmac
- Turf (whole sections)
You can bring the following amounts of these items. Either:
- Up to 2 x 50 litre bags (50x77cm) of construction and DIY waste, or
- 1 large item up to 200x75cm in size, or
- 1 sheet of plasterboard 120x140cm (you can bring as a single sheet or in two halves)
If you bring larger amounts or more frequently than every seven days, you will have to pay a fee.
You must have a valid permit to visit a CRC with a van, pickup or trailer. See our page on van, pickup and trailer permits.
Items you can bring in any amount
You may bring any amount of the items below to one of the above CRCs in a van for free no more than once every seven days and no more than 12 times every 12 months:
- Clay flowerpots, garden ornaments and crockery
Items you may bring in limited amounts
You may bring these items, up to the limits detailed below in a van for free no more than once every seven days and no more than 12 times every 12 months:
- Cement-based products including formed items, concrete and formed concrete items, blocks, slabs, and posts.
- Cement, stone, marble, slate and tile-based flooring
- Ceramics, such as piping and tiles.
- Granite, marble and slate
- Plasterboard
- Porcelain sanitary ware, such as bathroom suites, kitchenware, baths, cisterns, sinks, toilet pans, bidets (whole or broken up)
- Rubble and soils - gravel, hardcore, rock, sand and stone
- Tarmac
- Turf (whole sections)
You can also bring household asbestos waste up to the limits detailed below to Epsom, Guildford and Shepperton CRCs in a van. Asbestos must not be mixed with other construction and DIY waste. See our page on how to dispose of asbestos for more details.
You can bring the following amounts of these items. Either:
- Up to 2 x 50 litre bags (50x77cm) of construction and DIY waste, or
- 1 large item up to 200x75cm in size, or
- 1 sheet of plasterboard 120x140cm (you can bring as a single sheet or in two halves)
If you bring larger amounts or more frequently than every seven days, or more than 12 times in 12 months, you will have to pay a fee.
Items that you cannot bring in a van
You cannot take the items below to a CRC in van. However, you can take them to one of ßÙßÇÂþ»’s waste transfer stations, which are located at Epsom, Guildford and Leatherhead CRCs where they will be treated as business waste and charged for. While at the CRC, you must also complete and sign a household waste declaration form to confirm that the waste is not business waste.
- Doors
- Fitted kitchen cupboards and wooden or chipboard work surfaces
- Fitted units, such as wardrobes
- Garden wooden fencing posts and panels, garden structures, trellis, pergolas and sheds
- Insulation
- Metal sanitary ware, such as bathroom suites and kitchenware
- Radiators
- Rigid plastic sheeting
- Roofing felt
- Wooden, laminated and vinyl flooring
Charges
If you bring construction or DIY waste to a CRC and exceed the free limits, you will have to pay a fee.
- £5.60 (inclusive of VAT) per two bags of up to 50 litres and no bigger than 50x77cm
- £5.60 inclusive of VAT per item (up to 200x75cm)
- £5.60 (inclusive of VAT) per sheet of plasterboard (up to 120x140cm)
- £50.00 (inclusive of VAT) per loose carload
All payments must be made by Visa or Mastercard debit or credit card. American Express, cash and cheques are not accepted.
You must pay the charging scheme officer at the site entrance before you will be given access to the chargeable containers.
The decision of staff on how much to charge for the disposal of construction and DIY waste is final.