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
Every 10 minutes, Australians throw away 6,000 kg of fashion and textile waste. Over a year, 85% of the textiles that Australians buy ends up in landfill. But 96% of clothing donated to charities is re-used through sales or other recycling programs.
Make a difference and donate quality pre-loved clothing and accessories at this event. Donated items go to Australian Red Cross Shops for resale, including local stores on the Northern Beaches such as Avalon, Newport and Manly. Funds raised help Red Cross support people facing vulnerability, disaster and crisis in Australia and further afield.
Feel great knowing you’re supporting a good cause, decluttering your wardrobe while also saving more clothes from ending up in landfill.
For more information, please visit www.redcross.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.
Cardboard
Excess cardboard will be transported to Kimbriki Resource Recovery, 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.
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
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 https://thesydneylibraryofthings.org.au/ or contact wasteeducation@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au