The Dorking and Cranleigh Tips remain open for the time being whilst their future is further assessed over the summer. After 7 May 2019, however, only recyclable material will be accepted at both Tips.
This includes:
Domestic Batteries, Books, Car Batteries, Cardboard, Cartons, Cooking Oil, Electrical and Electronic Equipment (cookers, fridges and freezers, fluorescent tubes and lightbulbs, small domestic appliances, TV’s and monitors, and washing machines), Foil, Food Tins and Drink Cans, Garden Waste, Gas Bottles, Metals, Mixed Glass, Bottles & Jars, Mixed Paper, Mobile Phones, Printer Cartridges, Spectacles, Tapes and Discs, Textiles, and Used Engine Oil.
The following will no longer be accepted:
Black Bag Waste, Carpets, Furniture, Hard Plastics, Hazardous Waste (Household and Garden Chemicals and Paint), Mattresses, Plastic Wrap and Film, and Wood and Timber.
We will continue the campaign over the summer for the Tips to accept all waste and to re-open seven days a week.
If the council do close the recycling sites and or stop accepting the items mentioned firstly what are residents supposed to do with these items and secondly it will almost certainly increase the incidents of fly tipping which in turn means more money being spent clearing up the unsightly mess. So unless I have misread or misunderstood I can only see these new ideas costing more money
Agreed – that’s why we need to keep the Tip open. But the cost of clearing up the additional fly-tipping falls on the District Council, the National Trust and local landowners and farmers so this does not bother the County Council.