Bring Bank Facilities
Alongside our new recycling facility at Baloo, there are lots of other places where you can recycle in North Down.
Civic Amenity Site in Holywood (Sullivan Close)
Facilities are available for recycling: glass bottles and jars, drinks cartons (eg tetrapak), drinks cans, newspapers and magazines, textiles, plastic bottles, garden waste, books, waste engine oil and scrap metal.
| Opening Hours | Mon - Fri | Sat/Sun |
| 1st April - 30th September (Summer) | 8am - 8pm | 9am - 6pm |
| 1st October - 31st March (Winter) | 8am - 5pm | 9am - 5pm |
Car park at Harbour Road (Groomsport)
Facilities available for recycling: glass bottles and jars, drinks cartons (eg tetrapak), drinks cans, newspapers and magazines.
Car park at Fort Road (Helen's Bay)
Facilities available for recycling: glass bottles and jars, drinks cartons (eg tetrapak), drinks cans, newspapers and magazines. .
Bring centres for recycling glass bottles and jars:
- Bangor Sportsplex, Old Belfast Road
- Banks Lane car park, Groomsport Road (includes drinks cartons (eg tetrapak) recycling)
- Crawfordsburn Glen, Cootehall Road
- Fort Road car park, Helen’s Bay (includes drinks cartons (eg tetrapak) recycling)
- Harbour Road car park, Groomsport
- Kilcooley Community Centre
- Queen’s Parade car park (includes drinks cartons (eg tetrapak) recycling)
- Ward Arras car park, Gransha Road.
Facilities supplied by the commercial sector
- Bloomfield Shopping Centre
Facilities available for recycling: glass bottles and jars, drinks cans, newspapers and magazines and textiles.
- Sainsbury's (Holywood Exchange)
Facilities available for recycling: glass bottles and jars, drinks cans and textiles
What happens to the waste recovered at these sites?
- Glass bottles and jars: recycled into new bottles and jars.
- Drinks cans: recycled into new aluminium and steel products.
- Newspapers and magazines: recycled in Northern Ireland into egg boxes and other paper fibre products.
- Textiles: sorted and re-sold or recycled.
- Plastic bottles: recycled into carpet backing, fleece coats, plastic furniture and piping. Please wash all plastic bottles and then squash them to save space in the bank!
- Waste oil: cleaned and used in the manufacture of tarmac or to fuel machinery.
- Books: recovered for resale by charities.
- Scrap metal: sorted and reprocessed.
- Fridges and freezers: these are sent away to have CFCs removed.
- Fluorescent tubes: components recovered for re-use.
- Car batteries: components recovered for re-use.
- Drinks cartons (eg tetrapak): The aluminium foil and polyethylene are separated from the fibre, the fibre is recovered to make new paper products, the remaining mix of plastic and aluminium can then be used in furniture, to generate energy or even separated out into pure aluminium and paraffin.
