Rutland tips and recycling centres

Rutland County Council runs 2 household waste recycling centres.

Opening times

Hours for the current season; each tip's page has the full year.

Rutland tips and their opening hours
Tip Open
Cottesmore Mon 10am to 4pm; Fri to Sun 10am to 4pm
North Luffenham Tue to Sun 10am to 4pm

What Rutland tips take

Batteries (car) · Bicycles · Carpet (rolled into 6ft lengths) · Engine oil · Fluorescent tubes · Fridges, freezers and other white goods · Garden waste · Glass · Hardcore and rubble (non-commercial) · Hard plastics · Household and garden chemicals · Mattresses · Mirrors · Non-recyclable household waste · Plasterboard · Plate glass · Scrap metal · Soil and rubble · Textiles · TVs, stereos and computers · Tyres · Wood

Listed for most Rutland tips. Each tip's page says what it takes.

Before you visit any Rutland tip

  • Rutland residents only; register your vehicle on the ANPR system through MyAccount before visiting.
  • There is no charge for using the HWRCs.
  • No pedestrian access, no commercial or clinical waste, no asbestos, no fireworks or explosives, and no horseboxes.
  • Bring upholstered seating on its own, not as part of a mixed load.

Read from rutland.gov.uk on 2 October 2026. We list the tips whose details we could check against the council's own pages.