Can you recycle appliance filters (hepa, cooker hood, vacuum)?

🚫 Not recyclable

General waste — filters are mixed fibre media full of exactly what they filtered.

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HEPA, carbon and grease filters can't be recycled: contaminated mixed materials by design. General waste. Metal mesh cooker-hood filters are the exception — degrease and scrap them.

Which bin does it go in?

General waste — filters are mixed fibre media full of exactly what they filtered.

Before throwing it away, see reuse, repair and donation routes.

Background: What goes in each household bin?.

Also searched as: hepa filters, hoover filters, extractor filters.

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