By dropping off your items, you are making a big difference to ensure that they don't end up in landfill.

What happens to your items

Adult Clothing and accessories 

According to new research, Aussies have a staggering $25 billion worth of unworn clothing in their wardrobes. That's 231 million items nationwide—enough to fill 139 Olympic swimming pools. 

Make a difference and donate quality pre-loved clothing and accessories at this event. Donated items go to Australian Red Cross Shops for resale, including local stores on the Northern Beaches such as Avalon, Newport and Manly. Funds raised help Red Cross support people facing vulnerability, disaster and crisis in Australia and further afield.

Feel great knowing you’re supporting a good cause, decluttering your wardrobe while also saving more clothes from ending up in landfill.  

Essential items for babies and children 

Dandelion Support Network is a grassroots charity that accepts, sorts and safety checks donations of new and used essential nursery equipment and children’s items from the community.  Partnering with over 300 support agencies and hospitals, Dandelion rehomes these items to families in need from the Greater Sydney and Illawarra areas, free-of-charge. 

For more information, please visit dandelionsupport.org.au

Bikes, Scooters and E-Bikes

Revolve ReCYCLING aims to be the primary platform in Australia to help riders, bike shops and other retailers, PTV fleet operators, importers and others give new life to old rides. 

They provide a range of services from collecting to repairing, re-deploying, and selling bikes. They promote bike equity which includes giving kids bikes to kids who have no access to bikes. They also assist bike shops and bike fleet operators with waste minimisation services and offer bike service training and tune-up events in partnership with a range of councils.  

In doing so they provide employment opportunities for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. For them, it’s part of being a more sustainable and kinder community. 

For more information, please visit revolverecycling.net

Cardboard

Excess cardboard will be transported to Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, where the cardboard is aggregated on behalf of Council. The paper/cardboard is then transported to Visy (another Australian company) in Sydney’s western suburbs, for sorting and sending to paper mills to produce packaging, cardboard boxes and other paper products such as recycled paper towels and toilet paper.

Small metal items

Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre sends the small metal items to Sell and Parker Metal Recycling Services. The items are then shredded and smelted back into raw steel to be remanufactured into steel products.

Plastic plant pots

PP5 plastic plant pots, punnets and plant labels are recycled and made into new plant pots and other useful horticultural products.  For more information, please visit PP5 website and Garden City Plastics website.

Raw timber, flat pack furniture and raw pallets

Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre sends the eligible timber collected to reDirect Recycling who blend it with other raw materials and process it back into new particleboard sheets to be used in kitchen cabinets and other joinery at their facility in Oberon. Find out more.