Want to recycle more? Find out what else you can recycle in your local area using Recycle Now's recycling locator.
You can also find handy hints on how to reduce, reuse and recycle more on the #LeedsByExample website.
Hair dryers and straightners
If your unwanted hair appliance is in good working order, please donate it to a charity shop, local reuse organisation, or to the Revive Leeds reuse shop at the Kirkstall or Seacroft recycling centres. If you are replacing a broken hair appliance, the retailer supplying your new appliance should offer you a take back service. Alternatively, you can recycle your hair appliance by taking it to your nearest bring site that has a WEEE bank (see W for a list of sites) or to your nearest recycling centre, where you can put it in the small electrical waste container.
Hardcore
Hardcore* and many building materials can be used again. Bricks, large pieces of stone, doors and windows can be sold to architectural salvage yards. Brick* and rubble* can be taken to your nearest recycling centre and put in the skips marked Bricks and Rubble. These materials are used for cover and roads on landfill sites. *Restrictions apply for disposing of some types of rubbish at our household recycling sites including hardcore, bricks and rubble. To find out more please see our guide to DIY waste disposal.
Hazardous waste
Hearing aids
Herbicides
Household chemicals
Hypodermic needles
Used needles, syringes and pens should be put into a sharps bin.
Your doctor can prescribe you a sharps bin if you need one.
Some GP surgeries and health centres will accept your sharps bin when it is full but not all, so check before you take the sharps bin to them.
Kettle
If your kettle still works, please donate it to a charity shop or your local reuse organisation. You can recycle your kettle by taking it to your nearest bring site that has a WEEE bank (see W for a list of WEEE banks) or to your nearest recycling centre, where you can put it in the small waste electrical container. The metal and plastic will be recycled into new products.
Kitchen foil
Kitchen roll
Try to always use kitchen roll made from recycled paper. Used kitchen roll can be added to your compost bin/heap where it will rot down to produce compost for the garden. The cardboard inner tube can be recycled by putting it in your green recycling bin. It will recycled into new cardboard products.
Knives
You can recycle your old, unwanted knives by taking them to your nearest recycling site and putting them in the scrap metal container.
Vapes
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Used e-cigarettes and disposable vapes should be returned to the shops they were bought from for recycling or taken to the nearest small electrical recycling bank. They can also be deposited in the special vape bins at your nearest recycling centre.
