Composting

Ashprington Community Composting

6 Holly Villas, Ashprington, Totnes
Devon TQ9 7UU

A community composting site used by the villagers. The team of volunteers have also created a wildlife area and an orchard. Bring site, no collection round.

Aveton Gifford Community Composting

2 Glebeland, Aveton Gifford
Devon, TQ7 4LX
Community composting site with a collection round.Collections are twice monthly Sundays after 6pm Easter to mid-October same week as recycling collections.

Bratton Flemming Community Composting Group

Bratton Flemming Parish Council
2 Grange Close, Bratton Flemming
Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 7JG
Community composting group, bring site.

Chudleigh Rotters

31 Fore Street, Chudleigh
Devon TQ12 0HX
Community composting bring site.

Hele Community Composting

Mulberry View, Station Road, Hele
Exeter, Devon EX5 4PL
Bring site, no collection round. Also involved in preserving local wetland.

Otter Rotters

Unit 12
Honiton Business Park
Ottery Moor Lane
Honiton
EX141BG
www.otterrotters.co.uk

Otter Rotters provides a fortnightly kerbside collection service for garden waste in or around the Otter river valley in East Devon. They have also set up kitchen waste collection service and will soon be operating a timber re-use scheme.

Proper Job

Marketfield, Crannafords Ind Park, New Street
Chagford, Devon TQ13 8DJ
www.properjob.ik.com

Proper Job composts up to 100 tonnes per year of household garden waste, which is resold to the community as soil conditioners and mulches. The project offers composting, reuse, recycling, plant sales, scrap-store and much more from its site. It is committed to the principles of local sustainability.

Sandford Community Recycling

16 Crofts, Sandford, Crediton, Devon
A small composting group who collect garden waste from the village once a month and produce compost and chippings, to sell or give away.

Swarthmore Community Permaculture Project

The Old Wheelwrights, Sawpit Lane
Dartington, Devon, TQ9 6DQ

Uffculme Compost Magic

West Poynings, Chapel Hill, Uffculme
Devon EX15 3AQ
www.compostmagic.org.uk

Willand Community Composting

8 Somerville Close, Willand, Collumpton
Exeter, Devon EX15 2PN
A community composting bring site open every day of the year with vehicle access on weekends.

Education/Awareness Raising

Groundwork Plymouth

Ist Floor , Lister Court
Queen Alexander Square, The Millfields
Plymouth, Devon PL1 3JB
www.groundwork.org.uk/plymouth

Groundwork’s purpose is to build sustainable communities in areas of need through joint environmental action.

Mrs Recycle

Northfield Park, Goodleigh, Devon EX32 7NR
www.mrsrecycle.co.uk

Mrs Recycle provides fun and informative educational workshops for schools and community groups based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle.

Furniture and Electrical

Devon Furniture Forum

Units 4&5, Redlake Trading Estate, Bittaford, Ivybridge, Devon PL21 0EZ
www.devonfurnitureforum.org.uk

Devon Furniture Forum provides a support and advocacy service to the furniture recycling and re-use organisations within the region. DFF acts as a consultative body to other agencies in the field and encourages the development of partnerships with local statutory and voluntary organisations and with the public sector. In April 2001 DFF opened a regional white goods refurbishment centre. Large quantities of used white goods are refurbished and then allocated to furniture re-use groups throughout Devon.

Jigsaw Barnstable

The Old Laundry, Unit 4, Mill Rd
Barnstaple, Devon EX31 1JQ
www.ndhsltd.freeserve.co.uk

Jigsaw Barnstable is a furniture re-use and repair organisation, household reuse collections. Provides furniture and white goods for people who have been homeless, and have recently acquired accommodation.Volunteers working at the project learn a range of craft skills including woodwork, repairing and restoring furniture, warehousing, operating machinery, upholstery, etc.

MASH furniture reuse project

26, Tor Hill Rd, Torbay, Devon

Plymouth Resettlement Agency

80 Union St, Plymouth, Devon PL1 3EZ
Plymouth Resettlement Agency is a unique service which has been set up to provide cheap furniture and essential household items for people making the transition from institutionalised care to independent living.

Refurnish Totnes

Unit A Wills Rd, Totnes Inustrial Estate
Devon TQ9 5XN
www.devonfurnitureforum.co.uk

Re-use of furniture, household items and domestic appliances. Refurbished and guaranteed cookers, washing machines and domestic appliances for sale.

Recycling in Ottery (RIO)

Old Station Yard, Barrack Road,Ottery St Mary, Devon EX11 1RE
Recycling in Ottery (RiO) is a community re-use and recycling centre, which takes recyclable materials and furniture, building salvage, books, clothes and household goods.

Refurnish South Devon

Forde Rd, Brunel Rd Industrial Estate
Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 4AD
Re-use of furniture, household items and domestic appliances. Refurbished and guaranteed cookers, washing machines and domestic appliances for sale. Area covered: Newton Abbott, Torbay and South Hams. Free pick up of donated items.

TLC Community Benefits Ilfracombe

3 Portland St, Ilfracombe, Devon EX34 9NL
Aims is to provide furniture and white goods as cheaply as possible to people in receipt of benefits. All items and donated goods are collected free of charge.

Turntable Furniture

Exeter City Recycling Park, Exton Rd
Marsh Barton, Exeter, Devon EX2 8LY
www.turntable.org.uk

Turntable is a charitable organisation that collects good quality, donated household items such as 3-piece suites, beds, wardrobes, electrical white goods etc to pass on to families and individuals on very low incomes.

IT Equipment

Recycle World Inc. Lamp Recycling Services

The Church Chambers. 105 Grenville Road
St. Judes, Plymouth, Devon PL4 9PZ
www.recycleworld.co.uk

Our primary objective is to educate and provide computer and lamp recycling services to businesses and organisations throughout the whole of the South of England.

Recyclables

A1 Positive Recycling Project,

c/o 63a Summerway, Whipton, Exeter
Devon EX4 8DJ
Newly set up project to recycle printer -toner cartridges for recycling.

Paperchain

E.C.C Recycling Park, Exton Road
Exeter, Devon EX2 8EG
www.paperchain.org.uk

Office paper recycling collections in Exeter and surrounding area. Paperchain also services 11 textile banks in Exeter, and runs a supported employment scheme for the shredding of cardboard into animal bedding.

South Molton Recycle

125 East Street, South Molton,Devon EX36 4BL
South Molton Recycle Ltd operates a kerbside collection for 50,000 homes, runs 80 recycling ‘pavilions’ in villages around Devon, and recycles materials from 2 civic amenity sites. South Molton Recycle also runs a furniture re-use centre and is involved with comunity composting initiatives.

Scrapstore

Exeter Scrapstore

Belmont Pleasure Ground, Gordon Road
Exeter, Devon EX1 2DH
www.exeter.gov.uk/scrapstore

The Scrapstore is a valuable recycling facility where members can purchase waste materials created by local manufacturing processes for creative arts projects.

Holsworthy Family Workshop and Resource Centre

North Road, Holsworthy, Devon EX22 6HJ
www.hfwrc.fsnet.co.uk

Recycle for Play Project

c/o Plymouth Play Association
Union Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Devon PL1 3HB
Promotes children’s play. Services include toy library, recycling for play (Scrapstore) and play development.

SPARC

Old Chicken House, Craft Education
Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA
www.sparc-scrapstore.co.uk

SPARC run a family-friendly Scrapstore, open to all, with clean non-toxic waste materials for use in play, available at a low cost to the public.

Tavistock Scrapstore

The Molly Owen Centre, Pixon Lane
Tavistock, Devon PL19 8DE
Tavistock Scrapstore collects materials from local businesses to use as a resource for children’s play.