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Freecycle Bishop\u2019s Stortford<\/a> Olio<\/a> Charity shops Ecco<\/a> Repair Cafe Sawbridgeworth<\/a> Dunmow Pay It Forward<\/a> Hertfordshire Recycling Centre Re-use Shop<\/a> Hertfordshire Libraries REFILLit<\/a> Clothing alterations by Izabella<\/a> Recycling is a last choice option for things that can’t be reused. It can save energy and resources, and reduces the need for landfill. Recycling collections also provide a safer disposal route for items such as batteries that contain toxic materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plastic-free Bishop’s Stortford<\/a> Plastic Free Sawbridgeworth<\/a> Waste Warriors<\/a> Hertfordshire Recycling Centre<\/a> Cam Metal Recycling<\/a> Domestic recycling More details of exactly what can be included are available in the Guide to Bins, Boxes & Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Batteries<\/strong> Things change. Please let us know if any of this information could be improved or extended. Contact us<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reduce and reuse before recycling<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reduce and reuse<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div> For things that can’t be reused, we have plenty of recycling collection points<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Online group where you can ask for things you need or offer things you don\u2019t.You can ask for items that you need or offer things that you are happy to donate. Membership is free. All items posted must be free, legal and appropriate for all ages <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A sharing app for local communities, making it easy to give away the things you don\u2019t need to someone else who would value them. Originally working to reduce food waste but now all kinds of items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bishop’s Stortford has plenty of charity shops that will take clothing, books, DVDs and smaller household items. Buy or donate pre-loved stuff and help a good cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Takes larger items and furniture and also use proceeds from the shop to support the Parndon Wood Local Nature Reserve in Harlow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helping repair household and personal items. Learn how to sew, solder and diagnose problems with a variety of items, including clothes, toys, electrical, ornaments, watches, bicycles, household, sewing, jewellery, garden equipment, mobile phones or laptops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reusing and sharing things in Great Dunmow and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bishop’s Stortford household waste recycling centre also has a reuse centre where you can donate or buy larger items such as furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>There are libraries in Bishop’s Stortford and Sawbridgeworth. This is the oldest reuse centre of them all and still the ideal way to reduce the number of new books that need to be printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A commercial doorstep delivery service of refills including cleaning products and shampoo in Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishop’s Stortford and the surrounding towns and villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Service for alterations of clothes. Repair them and refit them rather than buying new.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRecycle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Large Facebook group that celebrates plastic-free businesses and shares details of where and how to recycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shares places that are trying to be plastic free. Plus additional recycling facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A group created by North and East Herts District Councils with a shared goal of reducing waste across the two districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The centre in Woodside Industrial Estate can take garden waste, wood, scrap metals, textiles, engine oil, batteries, flourescent light bulbs (including the low energy compact flourescent bulbs), CDs and DVDs, as well as recycling that would normally go in the kerbside waste bins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have more valuable metals, for example copper pipes or brass taps, you may get some money by taking them for recycling to Cam Metals in Twyford Road. They may require documents to show your identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>East Herts council have kerbside collections for recycling from domestic properties:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Most supermarkets have collection bins for small batteries. Ask at the customer service desk if the bin isn’t easily found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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