The recycling centre at Lifford Lane is conveniently situated by the tip. I'm pleased that the recycling aspect of this has now grown: previously it was primarily a tip, with a couple of little recycling bins for odds and sods, but now, it seems, there is plenty more recycling to be done.
Now at Lifford Lane they recycle quite a large amount of diverse household items: green garden waste, cardboard, paper, glass, metal, wood and wood-based products (MDF, chipboard etc), engine oil, car batteries, fridges & freezers, textiles, shoes, TVs & CRT Monitors, fluorescent tubes, gas bottles, soil, hardcore & rubble. I have no idea what you could possibly recycle soil or rubble as, but ours not to reason why - the good thing is they have this capability and they make it easy for us.
What's not so great are the queues. It's just as well that the centre is set halfway down a fairly quiet road that leads to a business park - otherwise the queues of traffic that occasionally build up there would be wreaking havoc on the roads of Birmingham. Be prepared to sit in your car with your junk for a long time.... read more