Mid & East Antrim Council announce new Household Recycling Centre opening hours

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council has announced new opening hours for Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) across the Borough, offering late night opening options all year round.

These changes have been implemented to standardise opening hours in all Household Recycling Centre’s across Mid and East Antrim and to ensure residents have late night access all year round – including throughout the winter.

From Tuesday 1 April 2025 the new recycling hours will be as follows:

As a reminder, Council’s HRCs accept a wide range of household materials, as detailed below:

• Batteries

• Books

• Food tins and drink cans

• Car batteries

• Cardboard

• Textiles

• Cooking oil

• Used engine oil

• Fluorescent tubes

• Small appliances

• Garden waste

• Gas bottles

• Mixed glass

• Large appliances

• Word/timber

• Non-recyclable waste

• Paper

• Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays

• Scrap metal

• TVs and monitors

• Printer cartridges

• Paint

• Plasterboard

• Hardcore and rubble

Council’s HRCs also support a wide range of reuse schemes including Community RePaint, Reading Glasses Scheme, DIY and Furniture Reuse Scheme (in partnership with Habitat for Humanity)and the Christmas Toy Scheme.

For further information on Council Household Recycling Centres, including new opening times, please visit www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk/HRC