Needles cannot be accepted at any household waste recycling centre.
You should use a sharps bin to dispose of used needles or sharps. A sharps bin is a specially designed rigid box with a lid that is available on prescription (FP10 prescription form) from your GP or pharmacist.
If you find needles, syringes and other drug-related items discarded in a public place, please report it to your local council so they can arrange for their removal:
- Craven District Council
- Hambleton District Council
- Harrogate Borough Council
- Richmondshire District Council
- Ryedale District Council
- Scarborough Borough Council
- Selby District Council
- City of York Council
If the items are discovered on private property (such as an abandoned house, or in a garden, playing field etc.) you should contact the landowner.
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