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).
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- CRCs that accept construction and DIY waste
- Construction and DIY items you can bring to participating CRCs in a car or van
- Free limits for taking construction and DIY waste to a community recycling centre (CRC)
- Charges for construction and DIY waste if you exceed the free limits
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.
Construction and DIY items you can bring to participating CRCs in a car or van
Items you can bring to a participating CRC in a car in any amount, an unlimited number of times per year for free
- Asbestos, which can only be taken to Epsom, Guildford and Shepperton CRCs. See our page on how to dispose of asbestos for details.
- 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
Items you can bring to a participating CRC in a car, up to the free limits for taking construction and DIY waste a CRC and no more than once every seven days for free
- 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)
If you bring the above items to a participating CRC in a car more than once during a seven-day period or exceed the free limits for taking construction and DIY waste to a CRC, you will be charged as per the charges for construction and DIY waste if you exceed the free limits.
Your van must have a van permit to visit a participating CRC in a van. For more information, see our page on van permits.
Items you can bring to a participating CRC in a van up to the up to the free limits for taking construction and DIY waste a CRC
- Asbestos, which can only be taken to Epsom, Guildford and Shepperton CRCs. See our page on how to dispose of asbestos for details.
- 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)
If you bring the above items to a participating CRC in a van more than once during a seven-day period or exceed the free limits for taking construction and DIY waste a CRC, you will be charged as per the charges for construction and DIY waste if you exceed the free limits.
Items that you cannot take a CRC in a van
- 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
- Loose loads of waste
- Metal sanitary ware, such as bathroom suites and kitchenware
- Radiators
- Rigid plastic sheeting
- Roofing felt
- Wooden, laminated and vinyl flooring
You can take the above items to one of Surrey’s waste transfer stations, which are located at Epsom, Guildford and Leatherhead CRCs where they will be treated as business waste and charged for. If you are disposing of asbestos, you must also complete and sign a household waste declaration form to confirm that the waste is not business waste.
Free limits for taking construction and DIY waste to a CRC
The amount of permitted construction and DIY waste that can be taken to a participating CRC in a car or van for free are as follows:
- 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)
Charges for construction and DIY waste if you exceed the free limits
If a charge is to be made for taking construction and DIY waste to a CRC as described above, you will be charged as follows:
- £5.60 (inclusive of VAT) per bag of up to 50 litres and no bigger than 50x77cm
- £5.60 inclusive of VAT per item (up to 200x75cm)
- £12.00 (inclusive of VAT) per sheet of plasterboard (up to 120x140cm)
- £50 (inclusive of VAT) per loose carload (loose loads will not be accepted in vans)
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.