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
Adult Clothing and accessories, Manchester, small homewares
Salvos Stores and op shops:
Our Salvos Stores and op shops specialise in the sale of pre-loved items generously donated by the Australian public. Ranging from our family stores and thrift shops to our well known Salvos Stores, all our stores sell quality used goods, including furniture, clothing and shoes, homewares and books. You can find a second-hand or vintage piece at an affordable price while helping raise funds to support our vital work in the community.
Serving the community:
All profits made through our stores go to funding Salvation Army programs and services around the country. By making a purchase at our stores, you are helping us give hope where it’s needed most. Our stores are committed to providing a fun and affordable shopping experience for the community. For those who are doing it tough, pre-loved furniture, clothing and goods donated to our stores are distributed free of charge to those in need through The Salvation Army’s community programs. For more information, please visit www.salvationarmy.org.au
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.
Bikes and e-bikes
Revolve ReCYCLING aims to be the primary platform in Australia to help riders, bike shops and other retailers, PTV fleet operators, importers and others give new life to old rides.
They provide a range of services from collecting to repairing, re-deploying, and selling bikes. They promote bike equity which includes giving kids bikes to kids who have no access to bikes. They also assist bike shops and bike fleet operators with waste minimisation services and offer bike service training and tune-up events in partnership with a range of councils.
In doing so they provide employment opportunities for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. For them, it’s part of being a more sustainable and kinder community. More information
Essential nursery 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 260 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
Small to medium sized electronic items
Co-founders of Whirl Recycling, Lisa and Adrian Saunders have created a network of committed recyclers, collectors and refurbishers who share their love of recycling. They give electronics a second chance through the most efficient ways possible. Over 60% of items collected end up being repurposed and reused. All data is fully erased using global best practice methods conforming to 22 international standards.
Whirl’s free collection service picks up from homes, schools, businesses, government – all to make it easier to keep electronics and appliances out of landfill. For more information, please visit whirlrecycling.com
Raw timber offcuts, flat pack furniture, 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 establishment of a ‘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