Can you recycle boilers?
🔄 Specialist take-back
Your installer takes the old one (it's scrap value to them) — never a household route.
Replaced boilers are dense scrap with copper heat exchangers — installers invariably take them (and should; it's part of the job price). DIY-removed boilers go to scrap dealers or the recycling centre metal container.
Which bin does it go in?
Your installer takes the old one (it's scrap value to them) — never a household route.
Background: The decluttering disposal checklist.
Also searched as: combi boiler, central heating.
✓ Checked against current UK guidance: 14 Jul 2026. Spot an error or an out-of-date rule?