Recycling Centres

Your four local Recycling Centres are:

Dunbar
Spott Road Industrial Estate
Dunbar
EH42 1RS

Macmerry - currently closed
Macmerry Industrial Estate
EH33 1RD

Kinwegar
A199 Haddington Road
Wallyford
EH21 8JU

North Berwick
The Heugh
North Berwick
EH39 5PS

Recycling Centres

Opening times

The Recycling Centres are open 7 days a week: 8:30 to 17:00

The Recycling Centres are closed 25th and 26th December and 1st and 2nd January, and will close at the earlier time of 2pm on Christmas Eve and Hogmanay.

What can I take to my local recycling centre?

Your recycling centres have skips and banks so you can recycle all of the following items:

  • Green garden waste
  • Florescent tubes and energy saving light bulbs
  • Cardboard
  • Vegetable oil
  • Household batteries
  • Scrap metal
  • Engine oil
  • Television and computer monitors
  • Rubble
  • Gas cylinders
  • Small and large electrical appliances
  • Solid timber
  • Car batteries
  • Fridges and freezers
  • Paper and card
  • Liquid food and drinks cartons
  • Plastic food and drinks containers
  • Green, clear and brown glass
  • Books
  • Clothes and shoes
  • Steel and aluminium cans and clean foil
  • Laminated wood
  • Soil and turf
  • Bicycles

Each centre also has facilities for you to deposit your non recyclable waste and large items like mattresses and sofas.

We do not accept food waste, tyres or asbestos at the Recycling Centres.