Although the members on this website will enable you to find a new home for most of your unwanted items, there will be occasions when they are not able to help.

However, there are plenty of other ways of finding them a new home. There are a number of sites providing a facility allowing you to give away items you no longer need to anybody who wants them.

Give or Take

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A materials exchange is a free online service that allows companies or organizations to list surplus resources, making them available for use by another, either for sale or free. This may encompass a wide range of materials, perhaps difficult wastes, which may not have recognized markets, brokers or dealers (e.g. wooden pallets, paper offcuts, office supplies and other raw materials.

The Furniture Re-use Network, Community Composting Network, Community Recycling Network UK and London Community Recycling Network have created a new community interest company (CIC) to work together more effectively across England. REconomy CIC will provide representation, development support, guidance and information for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations working to manage resources sustainably.

 
An environmental campaigner has been arrested for taking four plastic chairs from a recycling centre.

Genny Bove, 46, from Wrexham, said the chairs were dumped in a general rubbish skip and were due to go to a landfill site rather than being recycled. She is on bail, but called it a "waste of police time and resources".