Environment Rubbish, waste and recycling Pass it on - give your unwanted items a new home Other ways to avoid throwing things away
Find out what you can do instead of throwing things away.
Sell online
Selling unwanted goods online is easy:
- auction sites or apps
- social media (Facebook market)
Sell locally
You may prefer to sell your goods locally:
- supermarket noticeboard
- local shop window
- workplace intranet
- car boot sales
- antique and vintage shops
- second hand bookshops
- NCT nearly new sales
Give away
There are a number of ways you can give your good away for free:
- jumble sale
- charity shops and websites
- other charity collections
- furniture projects
- Freegle
- Freecycle
- toy libraries
- give and take day
- give to family and friends
- community groups
- doctors' surgeries
- local schools
Repair cafes
If you have something that is broken, why not consider bringing it to a repair cafe to see if someone can fix it instead of throwing it away?
Hire or borrow
You can hire or borrow some items instead of buying them:
- libraries
- formal clothes hire
- fancy dress hire
- watch films and music online
- furniture rental
- cycle hire
- crockery, glassware and catering equipment hire
- tool, gardening and cleaning equipment hire
- catering supplies
- toy libraries
- from friends, family or other people in your local area