Household Waste Recycling Centres

Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) are strictly for domestic waste only. They are not permitted to accept waste from businesses, including:

• Shops and retail outlets
• Offices and commercial premises
• Self-employed tradespeople
• Landlords disposing of property waste
• Any other business-related activity - including any you run from your home

Bringing commercial waste to a household waste recycling centre is illegal and may result in enforcement action.

Dundee City Council can also provide businesses with a Commercial Waste Service

Find out more about your commercial waste obligations: https://www.mygov.scot/business-commercial-waste

Operational delays often occur when many people visit the recycling centre at the same time - typically over the weekend. From April to September, we offer extended weekday opening hours to help ease congestion.  By visiting during the week, you should not only enjoy a quicker, smoother experience, but with fewer people on site, there's more time to properly sort your waste and maximise recycling where possible. 

There is a Reuse Hub located onsite at Baldovie Household Waste Recycling Centre. Instead of throwing away items that could still be useful, residents are encouraged to donate them to the hub. Accepted items include furniture, white goods, electricals, bicycles, and more. These are then refurbished and made available through local charities, helping reduce waste, support sustainability, and provide opportunities for employment and training.  Please check the following page for opening times Community Reuse Hub Baldovie

To make it easier for householders to recycle as much as possible, separate skips/containers are provided at each of the sites for specific recyclable waste types. Householders are encouraged to segregate their waste and use these facilities whenever possible. 

Please Read Carefully

• Please do not dispose of your e-Cycle, e-Scooter or e-Hoverboard in the Scrap Metal skip/container.
• e-Cycles, e-Scooters and e-Hoverboards are classed as electrical waste.
• In the first instance you should contact either the manufacturer or retailer of your e-Cycle/Scooter/Hoverboard.  Manufacturers & retailers should offer a free take-back scheme. More information can be found on GOV.UK for e-Cycles and e-Scooters
• If your e-Cycle/Scooter/Hoverboard cannot be returned via a take-back scheme, they can be recycled at Riverside or Baldovie recycling centres.  However, we can only accept them providing you carry out the following procedure:

1. Prior to visiting the recycling centre, remove the lithium battery from your e-Cycle/Scooter/Hoverboard.  Due to health & safety concerns, you are not permitted to remove these at the recycling centre.
2. Bring both your e-Cycle/Scooter/Hoverboard and the disconnected lithium battery to the recycling centre.
3. Important - Dispose of the e-Cycle/Scooter/Hoverboard (minus the lithium battery) in the Small Domestic Appliance container/area.
4. Important - Dispose of the lithium battery in the industrial battery box/container.

• Ask a recycling attendant on-site if unsure.
   

The council does not provide special/hazardous waste clean-up, uplift or disposal services for the following. Please contact a specialist hazardous/special waste disposal contractor directly for safe licensed uplift and disposal. Including but not limited to:

Conditions of Entry & Use

• Household waste only. Strictly no commercial or trade waste accepted.
• Strictly for Dundee residents and Angus Council residents living in the Monifieth and Sidlaw Wards (Inter-authority arrangement)
• A household waste permit scheme is in place for vans & trailers.
• Customers are required to separate waste and use the correct container for each material.
  Contamination of containers with incorrect materials may be treated as flytipping and result in a £200 fixed penalty notice.
• Anyone using these facilities do so at their own risk.
• Dundee City Council accepts no liability for negligent acts or omissions by those entering and using these facilities.
• Children must be kept under strict adult supervision and accompanied at all times.
• All authorised visitors and contractors must report to the site office and sign the visitor book.
• Staff reserve the right to refuse entry or continued use where site rules are breached
• Hazardous and specified non-accepted wastes are strictly prohibited.
• Entry and use of these facilities implies acceptance of the site rules.

Site Safety & Security

• Smoking & vaping is strictly prohibited at both sites.
• All staff, visitors and contractors must wear hi-viz clothing when on site.
• Staff are not required to assist with the manual handling of customer items for health & safety reasons. Any assistance offered will be entirely at staff discretion.
• Un-authorised removal of any items deposited at these sites will be considered theft/fraud, investigated and may result in a site entry ban and/or reported to Police Scotland.
• Any incidents of violence or aggression towards staff will not be tolerated and will be investigated and reported to the council's Anti-Social Behaviour Team and/or Police Scotland.
• CCTV and body worn audio/video cameras are operated in both centres by Dundee City Council for the purposes of crime prevention, public end employee safety.
• Customers must follow the direction of site staff at all times.

Please note that the city’s household waste recycling centres may be required to close at short notice for any of the following reasons:

• Skip containers full, or driver/staff shortage;
• Extreme weather;
• Health and safety;
• Other service disruptions.

In such an event, we will attempt to give as much notice as possible and update the public via the council’s social media channels, the Dundee MyBins App and as a blue banner at the beginning of this webpage – however due to work patterns this may not be possible at weekends/evenings.