Recycle your electrical items

We accept electrical appliances, cables and devices at our Household Recycling Centre in Fengate, as well as batteries, vapes, lightbulbs and fluorescent tubes. For more information, please visit our Household Recycling Centre page.

We offer a bulky waste collection service for various household items. This is a chargeable service. As part of this, items we can collect include household appliances, white goods and electrical items. You can view a full list of the items and book a collection on our bulky waste page.

You can put some types of used household batteries and disposable vapes out for collection on the same day as your green or black bin. You must place them in separate plastic bags and put on top of the bin lid. They must not go inside your bin. This is to prevent fires in our collection vehicles. Visit our battery and vape disposal page for more information.

In 2025, we took part in the Great Cable Challenge, encouraging Peterborough residents to recycle their electrical cables to help recover precious metals in them that would otherwise end up in general waste.

As part of this campaign, we installed cable recycling bins at various locations in the city. Due to the success of these bins, we have decided to continue with the scheme. Some of the locations have changed.

Cable bin locations

• Peterborough Town Hall, Bridge Street, PE1 1HF - open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
• Sand Martin House reception, Bittern Way, Fletton Quays, PE2 8TY - open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Visit the websites for the following locations to view opening hours:

• Bretton Library, The Cresset, Rightwell, Bretton, PE3 8DS
• Dogsthorpe Library, 70 Central Avenue, PE1 4LH
• Orton Library, Bushfield, Orton Goldhay, PE2 5RQ
• Vivacity Premier Fitness, Hadfield Road, Hampton, PE7 8DT
• Werrington Library, Staniland Way, Werrington, PE4 6JT

The cable bins we previously had at the Key Theatre and Werrington Leisure Centre have been removed and are no longer available.

How to identify the cable bins

You can identify the bins by their pink labels which say ‘Recycle your old cables here. Thank you’ and display our council logo. The bins are located inside the buildings and supervised by staff.

Items you can put in the cable bins

Electrical cables accepted include:

• TV and computer cables
• Cables with plugs
• Charging cables
• Extension cords
• Adapter cables
• Kettle leads