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Other Recyclable Items...

If it can not be recycled through your door-to-door collection, and cannot be recycled at the Chigwell Road Reuse and Recycling Centre then here's how it can be recycled...

Books

Old books can either be taken to your local charity shop or taken to one of the numerous British Heart Foundation book banks around Redbridge, where you can deposit your books for distribution to third world countries and charity shops.

Old School Books can be donated to Read International. This is a charity which distributes old books to schools in Africa that have no resources.

Bicycles

Give your unwanted bicycles to 'Re-Cycle' - Bicycle Aid for Africa. The second hand bicycles are shipped to Africa where they are given to people who have no access to transport of any kind.

CDs and DVDs

Give unwanted CDs and DVDs a new lease of life. Your old CDs can be recycled into burglar alarms, street lighting and lenses, and unwanted DVD cases can be recycled into birdfeeders. Visit the Polymer Recycling website to find out more

Energy Efficient Lightbulbs

Energy efficient lightbulbs can be placed in the fluorescent Tubes bank at the RRC’s.

Furniture

If you have large items of furniture and don’t have transport to take to the RRC, contact Homestore or The Furniture Project who are able to collect good quality furniture for distribution to people in need.

Gas Cartridges and Razors

Gas cartridges (such as those from hair tongs) and razors can be returned to Braun and Gillette group UK Ltd, Customer Services, Aylesbury Road, FREEPOST OF1503, THAME, Oxfordshire, OX9 3AX

Household Batteries

Batteries can be taken to any Dixons, Ikea, The Link or PC World store. Sainsbury's have envelopes available from customer service desk for batteries and ink cartridges and mobile phones.

Household Goods

Clothes, CDs, videos, DVDs, ornaments, toys, games and all sorts of other bric-a-brac can be taken to many charity shops around the borough.

Alternatively, you can take your unwanted goods along to one of our Give and Take days, or the Chigwell Road reuse and recycling site.

Mobile Phones and Inkjet Cartridges

There are many outlets for returning and recycling your old mobile phones and inkjet cartridges. Many electrical and mobile phone outlets will take them back for recycling.

You can also send your old mobile phones and inkjet cartridges to Help The Aged for recycling. Drop them at any Help the Aged shop, or visit the Help The Aged website for more information.

The recycling appeal refurbishes and resells mobile phones, giving a proportion of the proceeds to charities. Visit the Recycling Appeal website to find out more about the refurbishment and resale of mobile phones.

Spectacles

Around 10 million pairs of perfectly usable spectacles are discarded each year in Europe and North America. However these can be used to help people in the developing world to see. Most UK opticians now act as collection points for old glasses so drop yours off and give them a new lease of life.

For more information about spectacle recycling schemes, visit http://www.vao.org.uk/ or http://www.uniteforsight.org/

Tools

Unwanted tools can be recycled through Tools with a Mission or Tools for Self-Reliance charities who send them to developing countries.

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Other Recyclable Items