Other Ways to Recycle - F to Z

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Fridges

Southwark offers a free collection service from your household. Call 020 7525 2000 or email environment@southwark.gov.uk

Furniture (domestic)

The Morph outlet in Camberwell, formerly Shaftesbury Resources, will accept domestic furniture that is in good condition and suitable for reuse. Call 020 7737 7475 to arrange a collection from your house or take directly to their shop

93 Camberwell Station Road
Camberwell
London
SE5 9JJ

Furniture (office)

Community Recycling in Southwark Partnership (CRISP) accept all office furniture, such as desks, bookshelves and chairs as part of their OFFERS project. Please call 020 7703 5222 to arrange collection or take to

Unit 7-9
Brandon Street
Walworth
London
SE17 1NA

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am to 6pm

The Realise network also accepts office furniture.

Inkjet and toner cartridges

Environmental Business Products Ltd. support a wide range of charities by recycling your used inkjet cartridges. Call 0800 435576 for your FREEPOST envelope. They are also able to recycle used toner cartridges.

Check if your stockist offers a refill service.

There is also a recycling bank for printer and toner cartridges at the household waste reuse and recycling centre located at Manor Place Depot.

Lightbulbs

See 'Energy saving lightbulbs'

Mobile phones

Cellular Surplus recycle old phones to support a range of charities. Call 0800 9705 097 to request a FREEPOST envelope.

Alternatively you can return phones to any retailer for recycling, or take them to CRISP, who will also accept phone chargers

Unit 7-9
Brandon Street
Walworth
London
SE17 1NA

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am to 6pm

Plastic bags, polythene and mail wrappers

This includes both printed and unprinted polythene wrappers and bags. Things like vegetable bags, supermarket bags, mailing wrappers, bread bags, multipack wrappers and six pack rings.

Please note that polythene marked as 'degradable' cannot be recycled. It is very important that it doesn't get mixed up with ordinary polythene. All polythene items must be free of paper, food, sticky tape etc before they can be recycled.

Many major supermarket stores have Bag Banks in their car parks where you can recycle plastic bags.

Alternatively, send by post to

Polyprint Mailing Films Ltd
Mackintosh Road
Rackheath Industrial Estate
Rackheath
Norwich
NR13 6LJ

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Stamps

You can send used postage stamps FREEPOST back to the Post Office to be distributed to reputable, registered charities. Please don't peel the used stamps off the envelopes. Instead, tear around the stamps, leaving the post mark intact and send the stamps to:

Posted! Stamps for Charities
Education Distribution Service
Freepost FPN 772
Castle Road
Sittingbourne
Kent
ME10 3RL

Spectacles

Take to Dolland and Aitchison or ask your optician if they accept spectacles for recycling.

Tetra paks

See 'Cartons'

Textiles

Clothes and shoes can be reused and recycled by taking them to local charity shops or putting them (in a plastic bag) into a textiles recycling bank.  There are over 20 textiles recycling bins (Word 33kb) across the borough.

Toner cartridges

See 'Inkjets and toner cartridges'

Tools and sewing machines

Charitable organisations such as Workaid and Tools for Self-Reliance collect and refurbish tools for developing countries in Africa. Contact Workaid on 01494 765 506 or Tools for Self Reliance on 02380 869 697 for more information.

Tools can also be left at the reuse and recycle centre at Manor Place Depot for other visitors to reuse.

Water filters - Brita

The filters from water jugs that need replacing every month no longer need to be thrown away. Reusable parts are reconditioned and all the other components are recycled by Brita. Please send your filters in batches of six FREEPOST to

Brita Recycling
Freepost TK1917
Sunbury on Thames
TW16 5BR

Reduce, reuse, recycle 

Don't forget that before reusing or recycling, it is best to reduce the amount of waste we produce in the first place. Visit our waste minimisation pages for some great ideas.

Contact us

Recycling unit
Tel: 020 7525 2000
environment@southwark.gov.uk
30-34 Penrose Street
London
SE17 3DW