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Dropping off items

Where to take it

You can drop off items for reuse at any of our recycling centres.

Check your drop-off point:

Harpenden recycling centre

Please drop-off any reuse items at the drop off container inside Harpenden Recycling Centre.

Stevenage recycling centre

Please drop-off any reuse items at the centre’s pop-up reuse shop.

Stevenage pop-up reuse shop: opening hours and directions.
 

Ware recycling centre

Please drop-off any reuse items at Bay 16 inside Ware Recycling Centre.

Ware recycling centre: opening hours and directions.

 

Waterdale recycling centre

Please drop-off any reuse items at the centre’s dedicated reuse shop.

Waterdale reuse shop: opening hours and directions.
 

Welwyn Garden City

Please drop-off any reuse items at Bay 16 inside Welwyn Garden City Recycling Centre.

Any other recycling centre

When you are at the centre, please ask a member of staff to direct you.

Recycling centre opening times, directions and busy times.

 

Buying items

Harpenden Reuse Shop

 

Stevenage Pop-up Reuse Shop

 

Ware Reuse Shop

Waterdale Reuse Shop

 

Welwyn Garden City Reuse Shop

 

Community donations

We donate items from our shops to community groups, schools and individuals in need.

Request items from our Reuse shops:


An upcycling charity re-upholstering a chair

Furniture for Recover - a local charity that offers upcycling workshops to people recovering from mental illness and addiction.

Ware Rotary Club members with donated tools

Tools for Ware Rotary Club, who work with the Tools for Self Reliance charity. They are refurbished by people with disabilities, then sent to Africa for sustainable living projects.

Herts Disability Sports Foundation rep with a donated bike

Over 200 bikes for Hertfordshire Disability Sports Foundation, who repair the bikes, then give them to children in school Bikeability schemes.



Why reuse?

Recycling is great – reuse is better!

When you reuse an item, you are helping to:

  • save more of the earth’s resources, which will no longer be needed to make new items
  • save the energy that would otherwise be used to process recycling items
  • save items from ending up in landfills or recovery facilities
  • improve air quality and health for our residents, by reducing the number of vehicles on the road transporting waste.

Great bargains for you and a cleaner and greener environment - win-win!

 

 

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Other reuse options

If you can't make it to one of our Reuse Shops, these are also great reuse options:

 

Library of things

Borrow items that you might only use once or twice a year, such as a power tool, sewing machine, gazebo or chocolate fountain. Hire when you need it, then return it.

Find or set up a library of things
 

 
Whatever reuse option you choose, you are creating a greener place to live.

 

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