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RECYCLING & REUSING

Furniture

Please do not leave your unwanted furniture in the flat, bin store, common parts or on the street. You could be charged for removal if left. We have listed below a number of different ways to either reuse or recycle your unwanted belongings:

REUSE

  • The following local organisations will come and collect your unwanted furniture. Furniture needs to be cleaned and suitable for resale and have the correct fire labels where appropriate. Please phone them to discuss collection:

  • You can sell furniture at a car boot sale or use a number of online platforms including Gumtree, Friday-Ad, Facebook selling pages and other online platforms. 

  • You can also give it away for free through Freegle.

RECYCLED

  • Please take them to the Brighton Household Waste & Recycling site on Wilson Avenue or the Hove Household Waste & Recycling site on the Old Shoreham Road. See here for exact locations and opening times. For more details contact City Clean on 01273 292929.

  • If you don’t have transport, then please contact the council as they run a Bulky Waste Collections Service. They charge for this service, but discounts are available for people over 60 and those receiving certain benefit payments.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • 22 million small items of furniture are thrown out in the UK every year.

  • When surveyed about throwing furniture away people gave the following reasons; 

    • 23 per cent said it was the easiest thing to do.

    • another 23 per cent said they weren’t sure how to dispose of these items.

    • whilst 20 per cent said it was cheaper and easier to replace items rather than repair them.

  • International Repair Day is a joint initiative of the Open Repair Alliance, celebrated every year on the third Saturday of October.

 

Bedding & textiles

Bedding & textiles can be reused and recycled.

REUSE
Bedding including sheets, pillowcases, quilt covers and blankets can be reused if they are clean and in good condition. 

  • You can donate it to a charity shop.

  • You can sell it at a car boot sale or use a number of online platforms including Gumtree, Friday-Ad, Facebook selling pages and other online platforms. 

  • You can also give it away for free through Freegle.

 

RECYCLED
Where?

  • The Green Centre at Brighton Open Market. It will either be re-sold to support the project or recycled with our recycling partner ARB Recycling. More details here.

How?

  • It must be clean.

  • It must be in reasonable condition

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Recycling 1kg of textiles saves :

- 3.6kg of Co2 emissions
- 6000 litres of water
- 0.3kg of fertilizers
- 0.2kg of pesticides.

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