Household Waste and Recycling Centres

These Civic Amenity Sites are sites that are managed by Derbyshire County Council and are provided for you to dispose of large items that cannot fit into your refuse bin or items that should not be placed inside your refuse bin such as: carpets, soil, building rubble, paint pots, fluorescent light tubes etc.

They are also provided to enable you to recycle waste items such as: plastic bottles, garden waste, car batteries, old oil, old paint, wood, electrical items, etc.

The Household Waste and Recycling Centre in Amber Valley is located at Taylor Lane, Loscoe, Heanor, DE75 7TA. To find out more about  opening times and a full list of what can be accepted at the site please visit the Derbyshire County Council Website or contact them on 08456 058 058.  

Recycling Sites in Amber Valley 

There are forty one recycling bring sites located throughout the Borough, were the following items can be taken by residents to be recycled or re-used:

Textiles/Shoes (clean, dry, clothing, bedding and curtains / Shoes, boots or slippers)

Books/DVD's/CD's (items that can be re-used)

Charities or companies that sponsor charities collect the above items, which are then checked, cleaned and sent for re-use in third world countries, or sold in charity shops within the United Kingdom. Any clothing etc that cannot be re-used is recycled into cleaning cloths or upholstery filler.

Cans  (tin/aluminium cans, including aerosol cans, clean take-away containers) NO PAINT OR OIL CANS

Glass (glass bottles and jars, blue glass to be recycled with brown glass) NO PYREX DISHES, WINDOW GLASS OR MIRRORS 

Paper/Card (all types of paper and card including telephone directories)

Plastic & Cartons (tetra pak)

It is very difficult to list every single plastic container, there is just too many, so here is a guide:

We will accept and collect the following: 

Salad trays, oven ready meal trays, fizzy drink and water bottles.

Bottles for milk, bleach, cleaners and most shampoo bottles.

Margarine and cream cheese tubs, microwavable meal trays.       

Yoghurt pots, ice cream tubs, egg cartons, vending cups, plastic cutlery, protective packaging for electronic goods and toys.

We will also accept Liquid juice/milk cartons e.g. TetraPak

We will not accept or collect the following:

Pipes, fittings, window and door frames (rigid PVC), plastic toys, thermal insulation, foam and automotive parts.

Carrier bags, bin liners, bubble wrap, cling film, packaging films and

any other form of plastic bags.

Removing the lids and squashing the bottles before putting them in the banks, will allow more recycling to be collected.

Please note that you can now recycle batteries (not car batteries) and energy saving lightbulbs at Sainsbury's bring site, Ripley, there are also battery recycling boxes at Alfreton, Belper, Duffield, Heanor, Somercotes and Ripley libraries.

Not all sites have the full range of recycling banks, please see the list below which will inform you as to which site is nearest to your property and which items can be recycled at that location.