The main sites
Fife Council runs recycling centres including Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Lochgelly, St Andrews, Ladybank and Cupar, covering the kingdom from the Forth up to the Tay.
Dunfermline Recycling Centre is at Lochhead Landfill Site, north of Wellwood, Dunfermline, KY12 0RX. Kirkcaldy Recycling Centre is on Denburn Road, Kirkcaldy, KY1 2HD.
Both open seven days a week, 9am to 5:45pm through April to September. All the centres operate year-round except 25 and 26 December and 1 and 2 January.
Kirkcaldy closes for lunch
Kirkcaldy has a lunchtime closure from 12:30pm to 1:15pm, which is unusual and easy to be caught by — a lunch-hour trip is exactly when most people would go.
Dunfermline has no such closure. This is the sort of thing that varies site to site across the Fife network, so the sensible move is checking the specific centre you're heading for rather than assuming the whole network runs the same pattern.
- Kirkcaldy shuts 12:30pm to 1:15pm
- Dunfermline has no lunchtime closure
- Both open 7 days
- 9am to 5:45pm April to September
- Hours differ site to site
- Check before travelling
Rather not check six sets of rules?
One call covers the whole of Fife. No booking criteria, no lunchtime closures.
Vehicle booking
Fife does not require everyone to book, but some vehicle types must book before visiting, and the criteria are published per centre on Fife Council's recycling centres page. If you are arriving in anything other than a car, check the booking criteria for that specific site before you travel.
That per-site variation is the theme with Fife. It is a large network built up over time, and consistency across it is not guaranteed — hours, booking rules and accepted materials can all differ between two centres twenty minutes apart.
What they accept
Dunfermline's accepted list is broad: bathroom suites, bikes, books, cans and plastics, carpet, computers and screens, crockery, duvets and pillows, empty gas cylinders (LPG, butane and propane only), engine oil, small gas fires without a bottle, empty fire extinguishers, fluorescent tubes, glass panes including fish tanks, green garden waste, household batteries, independent living equipment such as walking frames and sticks, mattresses, metal, mirrors, glass bottles and jars, empty paint cans, and paper and cardboard.
Bathroom suites and carpet being accepted is worth knowing — both are commonly refused elsewhere. Independent living equipment is a thoughtful inclusion; where there is a lot of it, our mobility equipment removal service handles collections from the house.
Empty paint cans are accepted; paint itself is not. That distinction catches people out and is covered in our leftover paint guide.
Elsewhere in Scotland
The same guide for the other big areas: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, Perth and Stirling.
