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Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff

The websites below cover a multitude of items than can all be re-used by somebody else. The initiatives below are all dedicated to sourcing and matching needy people or communities with the miscellaneous items listed below.

Work Aid

  • Time taken:
    5 - 15 minutes to collate your unwanted tools ready for free pickup in the UK
  • Impact:
    Helps disadvantaged people in East Africa and the UK to build better lives for themselves and their families
  • Cost:
    Nothing, as your unwanted tools will be collected for free
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, Africa, By Category, By Time, Country, Economic Development, Europe, Green, Kenya, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Tanzania, Uganda, Under 20 minutes, United Kingdom, Zambia

Find out more about   Work Aid

Trash Cycle – Recycling Rubbish

  • Time taken:
    10 minutes to list your item on this UK based website
  • Impact:
    Encourages recycling and being environmentally friendly.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Europe, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Under 10 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Trash Cycle – Recycling Rubbish

UK National Scrap Store Directory

  • Time taken:
    Upto 20 minutes to arrange for collection and bundle up your scrap materials
  • Impact:
    Promotes and supports creative reuse of scrap that would otherwise be chucked in the bin.
  • Cost:
    Free collection is available - check website for eligibility
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Green, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff

Find out more about   UK National Scrap Store Directory

Preserve: Gimme 5 – Recycling Plastic

  • Time taken:
    Under 15 minutes to prepare a box of recyclable #5 plastic products ready for posting
  • Impact:
    Saves plastic from being sent to landfills
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Under 20 minutes

Find out more about   Preserve: Gimme 5 – Recycling Plastic

University Hospitals – Recycling Magazines and Books

  • Time taken:
    Under 15 minutes to package up magazines and books that can then be posted
  • Impact:
    Provides diversionary items to interact with, at a hospital in the U.S.
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Green, North America, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Under 20 minutes, United States

Find out more about   University Hospitals – Recycling Magazines and Books

Knit4Charities – Donate Spare Yarn

  • Time taken:
    Under 10 minutes to parcel up some spare yarn so that others can use it handcraft blankets and toys for the needy
  • Impact:
    Provides knitting material that eventually helps needy people in Australia, through the guise of warm blankets and toys
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Australia, Australia, By Time, Country, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Under 10 minutes

Find out more about   Knit4Charities – Donate Spare Yarn

Tools for Self Reliance – Recycling Tools

  • Time taken:
    Under 10 minutes to group unwanted tools together ready for collection
  • Impact:
    Empowers artisans working in developing countries so that they can better participate in the development of themselves and their communities.
  • Cost:
    Free collection available in the UK
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, Africa, By Category, By Time, Country, Economic Development, Ghana, Green, Malawi, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Under 10 minutes, Zambia

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Alzheimer’s Society – Recycling Jewellery

  • Time taken:
    Under 10 minutes to package up unwanted jewellery, ready for posting
  • Impact:
    Raises money that can be used to fund projects to continue Alzheimer's Society's work in leading the fight against dementia in the UK.
  • Cost:
    Free postage
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Europe, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Under 10 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Alzheimer’s Society – Recycling Jewellery

Green Karat – Recycling Jewellery

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to carefully wrap your gold up, ready for posting
  • Impact:
    Raises money for U.S. based environmental organisations
  • Cost:
    Postage costs plus you need to consider fully insuring it
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Under 5 minutes

Find out more about   Green Karat – Recycling Jewellery

Community Chest – Helping Unemployed People

  • Time taken:
    5 to 30 minutes to assemble household goods together for collection from your house in the UK
  • Impact:
    Helps to furnish homes for unemployed people
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, Country, Europe, Green, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Community Chest – Helping Unemployed People

TerraCycle – Turning Trash into Cash, Literally!

  • Time taken:
    Approx 10 - 30 minutes to package up. Maybe a bit longer to accumulate the rubbish!
  • Impact:
    Earn cash from your trash for charities and schools in the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Europe, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   TerraCycle – Turning Trash into Cash, Literally!

Tools With A Mission – Donating Tools

  • Time taken:
    Under 30 minutes to collate your unwanted tools and have them collected from your doorstep
  • Impact:
    Keeps unwanted goods out of landfill sites
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Africa, By Time, Country, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff, Uganda, Under 30 minutes, Zambia

Find out more about   Tools With A Mission – Donating Tools

Furniture Re-use Network

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to contact a UK organisation from the search list provided
  • Impact:
    Keeps unwanted furniture out of landfill sites and potentially benefits low income families
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    No PJ zone, just day clothes

Categories: Actions, Green, Recycle, Recycle Miscellaneous Stuff

Find out more about   Furniture Re-use Network