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You can recycle books, free of charge, at all our household waste recycling centres.

Books can be recycled in the book banks or the reuse container. If books are not suitable for reuse they can be placed in the paper recycling bank (if paperback).

West Harrogate, Leeming and Harrogate Stonefall household waste recycling centres also have Precycle banks for readable books, playable computer games and playable CD, DVDs and Blu-rays.

Local charity shops, reuse organisations and reuse websites are great places to donate unwanted items.

Find out more about book reuse at recyclenow.com.

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Find your local household waste recycling centre

Select your local household waste recycling centre below for more information about other items you can take to the sites, location, opening hours and any restrictions that apply.

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Alternatively, select your nearest centre below:

  • Mobile household waste recycling centres
  • Burniston household waste recycling centre
  • Catterick Bridge household waste recycling centre
  • Harrogate household waste recycling centre
  • Leeming Bar household waste recycling centre
  • Leyburn household waste recycling centre
  • Malton and Norton household waste recycling centre
  • Northallerton household waste recycling centre
  • Ripon household waste recycling centre
  • Seamer Carr household waste recycling centre
  • Selby household waste recycling centre
  • Settle household waste recycling centre
  • Skipton household waste recycling centre
  • Sowerby household waste recycling centre
  • Stokesley household waste recycling centre
  • Tadcaster household waste recycling centre
  • Tholthorpe household waste recycling centre
  • Thornton-le-Dale household waste recycling centre
  • West Harrogate household waste recycling centre
  • Whitby household waste recycling centre
  • Wombleton household waste recycling centre

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