By dropping off your items, you are making a big difference to ensure that they don't end up in landfill.
What happens to your items
Essential items for babies and children
Dandelion Support Network is a grassroots charity that accepts, sorts and safety checks donations of new and used essential nursery equipment and children’s items from the community. Partnering with over 300 support agencies and hospitals, Dandelion rehomes these items to families in need from the Greater Sydney and Illawarra areas, free-of-charge.
For more information, please visit dandelionsupport.org.au
Cardboard
Excess cardboard will be transported to Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, where the cardboard is aggregated on behalf of Council. The paper/cardboard is then transported to Visy (another Australian company) in Sydney’s western suburbs, for sorting and sending to paper mills to produce packaging, cardboard boxes and other paper products such as recycled paper towels and toilet paper.
Small metal items
Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre sends the small metal items to Sell and Parker Metal Recycling Services. The items are then shredded and smelted back into raw steel to be remanufactured into steel products.
Plastic plant pots
PP5 plastic plant pots, punnets and plant labels are recycled and made into new plant pots and other useful horticultural products. For more information, please visit PP5 website and Garden City Plastics website.
Raw timber, flat pack furniture and raw pallets
Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre sends the eligible timber collected to reDirect Recycling who blend it with other raw materials and process it back into new particleboard sheets to be used in kitchen cabinets and other joinery at their facility in Oberon. Find out more.
Sydney Library of Things
Why buy when you can borrow?
The Sydney Library of Things is a not-for-profit service that provides the local community with access to a collection of extremely useful but only occasionally used items that can be loaned out for a short period of time.
Borrowing tools saves money, resources, space & waste. It helps build resilient & sustainable communities and strengthens community connections. Research shows that people who contribute & borrow from a tool library express a sense of belonging in the broader community.
The Sydney Library of Things is membership based and offers annual, 6 months or quarterly memberships, with the fees going to maintain the library, tools, insurance and building the collection. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join and you only pay to join not to borrow items!
Help support the ‘Library of Things’ on the Northern Beaches and donate any of the items in the accepted items list.
For more information please visit the Sydney Library of Things webpage or contact wasteeducation@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au