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
Small furniture, washing machines and selected electronics
The Bower Reuse & Repair Centre is a Sydney environmental charity giving unwanted household items with plenty of life left a second chance. For 25+ years, we’ve helped keep reusable goods out of landfill through repair, reuse, resale and community programs.
Small furniture, washing machines and selected electronics donated at Northern Beaches Council Reuse and Recycling Events will be prioritised for our House to Home program, helping furnish social and crisis housing for people rebuilding their lives. Items not needed for this program may be resold through Bower stores to fund ongoing reuse and repair work. For more information, please visit https://bower.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.