Recycling In Crawley
Ways to donate
Non-council collectors
Crawley Recycling Centre
For more information, such as opening times and what is accepted at this centre, visit the Council website.
More ways to recycle
Crawley Borough Council provides three main recycling services, covering a wide range of everyday materials. But there are plenty of other items you can recycle locally that aren’t accepted through council collections. This page brings together everything you need to recycle more in Crawley.
Before exploring Clawley‑specific recycling opportunities, make sure you’re familiar with the council’s core services by visiting our West Sussex Recycling Hub
The main charity shops in Crawley
If you know of a great recycling initiative in Crawley, we would love to talk about it here so more people know about it. Just let us know so we can shout about it.
Non-council collectors in your area
Although the Crawley Borough can recycle a range of items, there are lots of household items that can’t be recycled through them. Thankfully there are local initiatives, like Terracycle, that allow you to recycle things to stop them going into landfill.
What is Terracycle?
TerraCycle is a recycling company that allows collectors, like Crawley Down recycling, to send them items to be recycled in exchange for points. These items are things that cannot go into council recycling bins and often end up in landfill. Like soft plastic packaging and cosmetic packaging.
Points are earned by the weight of each category of waste and can be exchanged for cash. Crawley Down Recycling then give the cash to a range of charities.
What other things can I recycle in Crawley
The Tesco Extra in Hazlewick Avenue recycles soft plastics. Items such as cucumber wrappers, salad bags, bread wrappers and crisp packets are accepted.
If you have thin plastic lids, plastic pouches (e.g micowave rice, petfood etc), the Co-Op in Tilgate Parade have collection points for these. You can see a full list of what they do and don’t collect on their website.
The Specsavers in the high street (The Martlets) should have a recycling point for your old glasses and contact lenses.
The Boots in the County Mall Shopping Centre that should have a collection point for the cosmetic packaging that they sell to be recycled. You can find out more about their recycling scheme on their website.
