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CHANGE THE WORLD IN JUST YOUR PYJAMAS!

Recycle/Swap Everything

As the saying goes, one person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure. You’ll be amazed at what you can get rid of. The sites below all offer a matching service for people’s ‘wants’ and ‘offers’. If you’re disposing of stuff, then the collector will pick up from your house. Disposing of unwanted items has never been so easy.

ThrowPlace – Donating Items to Charity

  • Time taken:
    5 minutes to fill in a web form that will initiate the process of donating your unwanted goods to a charity
  • Impact:
    Reduces the drain on landfill sites, whilst benefitting charities with goods that they would otherwise have to spend their hard earned donations on
  • Cost:
    Nothing to fill in a form, although postage costs may apply if you agree to pay for shipping an item to a charity
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Green, North America, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, Under 5 minutes, United States

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Recycle

  • Time taken:
    Under 10 minutes to list your item on the website to find your item a new home
  • Impact:
    Helps to reduce the waste that is taken to landfills & skips
  • Cost:
    By agreement with buyer or recycler
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, Under 10 minutes

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Blue Bin – A ReUser’s Community

  • Time taken:
    Upto 10 minutes to list your item on the U.S. based website
  • Impact:
    Helps individuals source items they may not have and prevents goods from ending up in landfill sites
  • Cost:
    Free to list item
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Country, Green, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, United States

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efreeko – UK National Recycling

  • Time taken:
    Upto 10 minutes to list your item and so find it a new home
  • Impact:
    Encourages a recycling mindset and prevents goods from being taken to landfill sites and skips
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Country, Europe, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, United Kingdom

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Give Or Take – Recycling for the Community

  • Time taken:
    Upto 10 minutes to list your item on the website
  • Impact:
    Prevents otherwise useful items from being dumped in the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Country, Europe, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, United Kingdom

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Free2Collect – Exchange Items for Free

  • Time taken:
    Upto 10 minutes to turn your waste into somebody else's treasure
  • Impact:
    Re-homes items, ranging from furniture and kitchen equipment to cars and mobile homes.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Country, Europe, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, United Kingdom

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FreeUse – Person to Person Recycling

  • Time taken:
    Upto 10 minutes to list your item and turn your trash into someone's treaure
  • Impact:
    Prevents otherwise useful items from being dumped in the U.S.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

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

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Free Sharing

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to search for your local group and post an item
  • Impact:
    Helps the environment by keeping usable items out of the landfill by passing them along to people who can use them.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything

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Charity America – Donating to Charities

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to fill in a form that extracts a description of the item you wish to donate
  • Impact:
    Provides much needed items for charities in America
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

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

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Excess Access – Matching Donated Items to Nonprofits

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to sign up to the website and then advertise your donated item
  • Impact:
    Keeps useful goods and materials from ending up in over-flowing garbage dumps.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything

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Don’t Dump That

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to list an item to donate
  • Impact:
    Promoting reuse and the reduction of waste in the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Country, Europe, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, United Kingdom

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Student Swap Shop

  • Time taken:
    A few short minutes to register with the site to begin listing your items you wish to swap
  • Impact:
    Encourages recycling and being environmentally friendly.
  • Cost:
    Free to register. Postage costs within the UK
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything, Under 5 minutes, United Kingdom

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Freecycle

  • Time taken:
    A couple of minutes to post an 'Offer' ad. A couple of minutes to receive a reply - possibly!
  • Impact:
    Keeps unwanted goods out of landfill sites
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Recycle, Recycle/Swap Everything

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