Recycling - sites

Find your nearest recycling banks

Please do not put cardboard in the blue paper banks, paper goes directly to Aylesford Newsprint and they do not have the facility to seperate cardboard from paper. Cardboard should be flattened and placed in your green wheelie bin or black box for recycling, large pieces of card should be cut up and placed next to your green bin/black box, tied together with string if necessary.

You can recycle glass, paper, textiles, shoes and books at our recycling sites across the borough, please see below to find your nearest site and the facilities offered. Many more items

can be recycled at the Household waste recycling site in Tovil.

Carton Recycling                                                             

We are very pleased to announce that we now have five new carton banks so that you can now recycle cartons generally used for fruit juice, milk, sauces and other liquid foods and drinks.  The cartons are recycled into high grade paper products.

• Allington: London Road Park & Ride – Glass, Textiles
• Allington: Mid Kent shopping Centre, Castle Road – Glass, Paper, Textiles, Shoes
• Bredhurst: The Nursery Restaurant, Dunn Street Road - Glass  
• East Farleigh: The Bull PH, Lower Road - Glass, Textiles, Paper   
• Grove Green: Tesco, Grovewood Drive, Grove Green – Glass, Paper, Shoes, Books, Textiles
• Headcorn: Headcorn Aerodrome, Shenley Road, – Glass
• Headcorn: Parsonage Meadow – Glass, Textiles, Shoes, Cartons 
• Hollingbourne: Train Station, Eyhorne Street – Glass, Paper, Textiles
• Kingswood: Village Hall, Gravelly Bottom Road – Glass, Paper, Textiles, Books
• Leeds: St Nicholas’s Church Car Park, Lower Street – Glass, Textiles 
• Leeds Castle Golf Course, A20 - Glass, Textiles 
• Lenham: Old Ashford Road – Glass, Textiles, Shoes
• Marden: Library Car Park, High Street – Glass, Paper,Textiles, Shoes, Cartons   
• Mote park: Willington Street Park & Ride – Glass, Paper, Textiles, Books  
• Parkwood: Parkwood Parade – Glass, Paper, Textiles, Shoes
• Penenden Heath: Sandy Lane – Glass, Paper,Textiles, Shoes, Books, Cartons 
• Sutton Road: Morrisons Car Park, Sutton Road – Glass, Paper,Textiles, Shoes, Cartons 
• Sutton Road: The Old Dairy, Rectory farm, Sutton Road, Maidstone - Glass, Textiles 
• Sandling: Tyland Barn, Tyland Lane – Glass, Paper,Textiles
• Senacre: Senacre Square Car Park – Paper, Textiles, Shoes
• Shepway: Community Centre, Cumberland Green – Glass, Textiles 
• Staplehurst: Bell Lane Car Park – Glass, Paper,Textiles, Shoes
• Stockbury: Parsonage Farm, The Street – Glass, Textiles 
• Tovil: Tesco, Farleigh Hill – Glass, Paper, Textiles, Shoes, Cartons 
• Town centre: Lockmeadow Market, Barker Road – Glass, Textiles, Shoes, Books
• Town centre: Westree Court, Roland Close, - Glass, Textiles
• Town centre: B&Q Car Park, Hart Street – Glass, Paper, Textiles
• Town centre: Samaritans shop, 48 Grecian Street - Textiles
• Maidstone Leisure Centre, Willow Way, Textiles, Glass 
• Yalding: Station Car Park, Hampstead Lane – Glass, Paper,Textiles

Please help us by squashing your recycling so that it fits into the banks, tying shoes together in pairs and putting everything in the correct bank. Please do not leave any items next to the banks, this is not recycled and is classed as flytipping.

To check the details of your refuse and recycling collections, please put your postcode in the box below and click on the ‘search’ button.

Useful links

Household waste - disposal sites