Charity Shops will take many items but not everything. Ask first.
anglodoorstepcollections.co.uk (0800 0371938). Supports various charities and will collect donations of adult/children/baby clothes, phones and small household items from your doorstep.
Salvation Army Donation Centre, 19 Woodside Road, Guildford, (01483 962806) accepts clothing and other household items. Larger donation centres welcome bigger items including furniture
TWAM. Tools with a Mission takes all sorts of tools and sewing materials, haberdashery, Bibles and some IT equipment and re-purposes them for sub-Saharan Africa (Beacon Hill United Reform church is a collection point and may be able to collect from households or from other churches)
Dunelm Stores recycles textiles, clothes, shoes, bedding etc.
Zero Carbon Guildford
Zero takes hard-to-recycle items and sends them to organisations like Terracycle, Recycling For Good Causes and Fundraise & Recycle. These organisations are all UK-based, and they either repurpose them or turn them into things like playground equipment, watering cans, storage containers and more. Zero Recycling
Tech Stuff
Curry’s in Guildford will recycle your ‘old tech’ (remove or destroy all data first)
James.org.uk, based in Southampton will accept a full range of computer-type equipment: computers, printers, phones, etc.. They might collect if enough items can be gathered together.
CeX. North Street, Guildford will take/buy most phones, unscratched CD’s, DVD’s, Blu Rays, Games, Consoles etc.
Garden Items
Waverley Kerbside Recycling now collects coloured plant pots (not black)
B&Q Guildford (Ladymeade Retail centre) will also take plastic pots
Candles & Tealights
recycled wax.co.uk will accept candles & tealights and recycle them as a range of new products
Books
Transition Haslemere, at the Haslemere Farmers Market (First Saturday of the month), will accept paperbacks
Oxfam Bookshop, Farnham – all books
World of Books App or website: https://sell.worldofbooks.com/ Use of free courier to sell books, games, DVD’s and CD’s
Exchange & Re-Use
Buy Nothing Haslemere
Facebook group supporting the circular economy, through which local residents can offer for collection items no longer needed and post requests. Buy Nothing Haslemere and | Facebook
Haslemere Gardening Plants & Tips Swap
Facebook group for garden swaps: Garden Swaps
Freecycle
Currently has groups in Godalming, Bordon, Midhurst, Farnham and Guildford. Details as for Buy Nothing. freecycle.org
REPAIR
Haslemere Repair Café on the first Saturday of every month at the
Swan Inn, Haslemere High Street www.lovehaslemerehatewaste.co/repair-cafe
Chiddingfold Repair Café is run at Chiddingfold Baptist Church, Woodside Road, on the second Saturday of the month, 10am – 12.30pm.
www.facebook.com/RepairCafeChiddingfold
Don't Buy - Hire!
Library of Things: At Haslemere Library you can hire many items you only use occasionally, such as tools for home and garden D.I.Y.. Also games. There is a small hire charge, plus a returnable deposit. https://www.lovehaslemerehatewaste.co/the-library-of-things-1
If you would like to suggest other places to recycle, contact us here.