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Household Waste Recycling Centre

Household Waste Recycling Centre

The Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) at Port Solent can take the items residents are unable to dispose of in the usual household black bag rubbish, recycling bin or composting.

The HWRC is open for residents to use all year except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Summer opening times (April – September) – 8am – 7pm
Winter opening times (October – March) – 8am – 4pm
Telephone – 023 9221 9819

Handy tip: the HWRC is very popular and often gets busy, especially on nice sunny weekends and Bank Holidays.  Visit on a different day or in the late afternoon and you should save yourself some time and frustration.

The HWRC has the facilities to dispose of:

• Electrical goods – all electrical goods including - washing machines, microwaves, TVs, fridges and freezers
• Computers - tip: ensure that you clean your personal information from the hard disks - simply deleting information is not enough  
• Bulky furniture – sofas, beds, wardrobes etc
• ‘Bric-a-brac’ – that can be resold
• Cardboard
• Paper
• Textiles
• DIY waste
• Light bulbs and fluorescent tubes
• Domestic batteries
• Glass
• Garden waste
• Soil and rubble – no more than six bags or the equivalent of a small car boot full – Handy tip: Please bag your soil and rubbish up
• Wood
• Scrap metal – old bikes, radiators, copper piping, corrugated metal roofs
• Asbestos – although we can only accept small amounts that have been double wrapped in plastic, due to health and safety reasons.  Handy tip: Our storage of asbestos is limited so please call the site before making your journey
• Car batteries
• Engine oil
• Gas bottles and canisters – (please see the link below for more information)Hazardous household waste – paint, garden chemicals, drain cleaner and lubricants

Items we are unable to accept:

• Car tyres – these should be taken to the garage which supplied them or contact your local tyre retailer or garage who may take them for a small fee
• Car parts containing polluting substances i.e. oil
• Petrol, diesel and paraffin
• Medicines – should go back to your local chemist
• Ammunition, explosives or marine flares – contact your local police station

Please note:

Please ensure you leave yourself enough time to arrive and unload your waste before the site is due to close, particularly if you have a significant amount to dispose of.

Directions by road – for map see link at bottom of page

• When travelling out of the city along the M275 keep left and branch left onto the A27 signposted Paulsgrove and Cosham
• At the traffic lights bear left and follow the signs for Fareham 
• Travel along the Southampton Road, past Tesco Extra North Harbour
• As you pass under the flyover keep left and turn left at the traffic lights into Port Way
• Travel straight ahead at the first roundabout, follow the road round towards Port Solent at the second roundabout and at the third take the left turning onto Newlyn Way
• Follow this road to arrive at the HWRC

The HWRC is paid for by residents’ council tax and is for residents’ use only!

To prevent abuse of the HWRC and to avoid the tax-payer subsidising businesses we have installed CCTV and height barriers.
The new height barriers are to prevent trade vehicles entering the site and only allow vehicles with a maximum height of 5’9’’ (1.75m) to enter.
We understand that some householders do own vehicles that will not go under the height barrier (vans and some types of 4x4s, for example). For this reason the barriers will be open all day Friday and on Saturday mornings between 8am - 12noon, with extra Enforcement Officers on site to ensure that traders don’t abuse the system.

The security height barriers have been a great success! They have stopped many traders illegally dumping their rubbish at the HWRC and subsequently saved the tax-payer £1000s! And there’s been no reported increase in fly tipping elsewhere.

Traders Beware!
If you’re a trader and need to dispose of business waste, whether it’s paper from an accountant’s office or rubble from a building site, visit the Information for Businesses page for further information.

Associated documents:

  Map to Household Waste Recycling Centre in Port Solent  (0.12 MB)
Acceptance of gas bottles at the HWRC  (0.22 MB)
Dispose of it safely - hazardous household waste  (0.64 MB)