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Recycle Mobility / Medical Items

All sorts of medical equipment can be re-used and donated to the various organizations listed below. Depending on the item, some organizations will collect, some have drop off points and some will only accept posted items. Either way, any medical items you can donate will be put to good use for needy people around the world.

Recycle For Sight – Donating Spectacles

  • Time taken:
    10 minutes to carefully package unwanted glasses in readiness for posting
  • Impact:
    Potential to help the recipient of a pair of glasses in a developing nation to maintain their independance
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Green, Health & Medicine, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Under 10 minutes

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InterCare – Medical Aid for Africa

  • Time taken:
    Upto 10 minutes to collate and package unused medicines for posting
  • Impact:
    Helps to save lives in Africa, whilst saving waste in the UK
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Africa, By Category, By Time, Cameroon, Country, Ghana, Green, Malawi, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Under 10 minutes, Zambia

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New Eyes for the Needy – Recycling Glasses

  • Time taken:
    Upto 10 minutes to prepare an envelope to receive recycled glasses
  • Impact:
    Brings vision or clearer vision to scores of people living in poverty overseas.
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Africa, Asia, Bolivia, By Category, By Time, China, Country, Ghana, Green, Health & Medicine, Honduras, Jamaica, North America, Offline, Panama, Philippines, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, South America, Thailand, Under 10 minutes

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Limbs of Love – Recycling Prosthetic Devices

  • Time taken:
    Upto 20 minutes to wrap up an unwanted prosthetic device suitable for posting to a U.S. postal address
  • Impact:
    Helps people to walk again, hold that cup of coffee and effect them in ways you didn’t know were possible.
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Green, Health & Medicine, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Under 20 minutes, United States

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Glasses Without Borders

  • Time taken:
    Under 10 minutes to package your unwanted glasses up carefully, so they don't get damaged whenyou pop them in the post
  • Impact:
    Glasses are sent to competent persons in private hospitals, opthalmological advice centers where they can benefit the poor partially-sighted persons of their country.
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a France based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Africa, Asia, By Category, By Time, Cameroon, Columbia, Country, Ecuador, Europe, France, Green, Health & Medicine, India, Morocco, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Russia, South America, Under 10 minutes, Vietnam

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Unite for Site

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to bundle your unwanted eye equipment ready for posting
  • Impact:
    Helping to eliminate blindness and restore sight
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Africa, Asia, By Category, By Time, Country, Ghana, Green, Honduras, India, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Under 5 minutes

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Wheels for Humanity – Recycling Wheelchairs

  • Time taken:
    Under 10 minutes to arrange for a free collection of your unwanted wheelchairs and/or accessories
  • Impact:
    Brings the freedom of mobility to thousands across the globe, who otherwise must crawl or be carried to get from A to B.
  • Cost:
    Free collection available within designated collection zones in California
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Africa, Asia, By Category, By Time, China, Country, Cuba, Egypt, Europe, Green, Mexico, North America, Offline, Pakistan, Poland, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Romania, Uganda, Under 10 minutes

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IndependenceFirst Mobility Store – Wheelchair Recycling Program

  • Time taken:
    Under 10 minutes to arrange for a collection of your unwanted wheelchairs in the Wisconsin area of the U.S.
  • Impact:
    Offers refurbished and sanitized mobility and medical equipment to those who lack the resources to acquire new equipment.
  • Cost:
    'Free' collection of large items that charges a minimal pickup fee
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Green, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Under 10 minutes, United States

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The Wheelchair Project

  • Time taken:
    A couple of minutes to browse through list of mobility equipment available
  • Impact:
    Enables American disabled people a greater degree of mobility
  • Cost:
    Free if you're donating equipment as recipient will pay for any associated costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Green, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Under 5 minutes, United States

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Chariots of Hope – Donating Wheelchairs

  • Time taken:
    If wheelcahir being collected, then under 15 minutes. If being posted, then under 30 minutes to package up, ready for posting
  • Impact:
    Provides hope to mobility impaired people.
  • Cost:
    Nothing, if collected. Postage costs, if posted.
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Green, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Mobility / Medical Items, Under 20 minutes, United States

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