Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC)

Burn Road, Hartlepool, TS25 1PL

You no longer require an appointment to visit the HWRC. To ensure the site continues to run as smoothly and as safely as possible, please read the following information.

Opening Hours

Wednesday to Sunday (please check opening times for any Bank Holidays)

Mornings
9.00am - 12.00noon (Gates close at 11:50am)

Afternoon
1.00pm – 6.00pm from 1st April – 31st October (Gates close at 5.50pm)
1.00pm – 4.00pm from 1st November – 31st March (Gates close at 3.50pm)

The site will also need to be closed around 10.30am and 2.30pm each day for approximately 15 minutes to enable us to compact the skips safely. Please be aware during busier periods these times may change and skips may need to be compacted earlier.

The site may also close with no notice if the weather makes it unsafe for us to operate.

Rules of the site

We will ask all our site visitors to stop at the office so we can assist you on your visit as well as deal with any paid waste that comes on site.

We will be undertaking address checks to make sure that visitors are residents of Hartlepool.  Therefore, please bring photographic ID and proof of address every time you visit the site. If, when challenged, you cannot produce this, you will be unable to dispose of your waste and will be asked to leave the site.

You will require a waste permit if you are driving a van, a car with sign writing, minibus or towing a trailer -please contact 01429 401987 for further information on how to apply.

No commercial vehicles or vans with sign writing are permitted to use the site. We may, however, be able to accommodate commercial vehicles in our waste transfer station.  Please contact us to discuss this. Charges will apply.

Chargeable and DIY Waste

Charges are applicable for the disposal of asbestos (£7.20 per bag) and tyres (£3.20 per tyre)

You can dispose of a limited amount of waste created by your own DIY projects for free, but there are restrictions on size and amounts that can be brought in and the number of visits you can make each week.

Once a week, you can bring either:

  • a single article of waste no larger than 2000mm x 750mm x 700mm in size
    or
  • less than 100 litres of DIY waste items, capable of being fitted into two 50 litre bags

We can accept the below items free of charge in the quantities mentioned above:

  • hardcore, bricks, rubble and tarmac, including plasterboard and gypsum items, slate, stone, soil, clay, turf, gravel and pebbles
  • concrete, including breeze blocks, paving slabs, lintels, mortar and rendering, mixed or powdered cement or cement board
  • glass, including shower screens, plate and sheet glass, tiles, furniture shelving, table tops
  • pottery and ceramics, including baths, toilets, bidets, shower trays, sinks
  • sand, including sharp sand, play pit sand and sand from sandbags used as flood protection

There will be a charge for all items in the list that exceed the limit as below (per 25kg bag/sheet/item):

  • Soil £3.00
  • Hardcore, rubble, ceramics £3.00
  • Plate glass £3.00
  • Plasterboard £6.00

We will not accept bags of mixed waste.

Please note we are only able to accept card payments at the Household Waste Recycling Centre.

Unless authorised, it is an offence to deposit waste arising from a business or trade. Any vehicle believed to be presenting waste arising from a commercial activity will not be allowed to tip.

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