The Great 'Recycle it for cash' Hunt. Make money from old stuff you don't want.

julie777

I don't know where but I've read that too but it could apply to over 60 items THROUGH ONE CHANNEL?

neighbourly

Recycle your old mobile & save lives, donate your phone to the RNLI, they can get £5 per phone, which is used to buy lifejackets boots waterproof suits Etc. it costs over a Billion pounds a year to run all of which is raised by donations (no government or lottery money given).
you can hand them in to any Lifeboat station See link for your nearest station or contact them via website to see what else you can donate.
http://www.rnli.org.uk/home

tee_pee_2

Cheap_Chic wrote:

I found a brilliant site to recycle,buy & sell books and it's enviromentally friendly too! I sold 3 of my daughter's text books from uni for £3 each minus the 50p postage it cost me.
I suggested she sell them at uni but that seemed too difficult,this was the perfect solution.I've made her £7.50 from something that would have been discarded otherwise.
It wouldn't be suitable for all books.For these I think this beat e-bay and i'm really chuffed with the result.Have a look at www.GreenMetropolis.com and see what you think!
This is my first time writing and i'm nervous but I hope I've got this across alright! I might try again!

just put 4 books on it, trying to find the kitchen scales so I can put the rest on.

tomtombeanie

starbuck wrote:

Don't forget https://www.free2collect.co.uk

Thanks for this link, will check it out. Already using freecycle & ebay but constantly clearing out stuff we no longer need...if item is not too awkward to post, usually try my luck on ebay first but also happy to just give away. Clutter is the enemy!

coachwise

Didn't Richard (the Hamster) Hammond with Mel Gedroich on ITV 5pm show suggest putting out things you did not need any more?
We have just done that with a unit we no longer wanted and it went to a GOOD HOME in 20 minutes!

HugoSP

coachwise wrote:

Didn't Richard (the Hamster) Hammond with Mel Gedroich on ITV 5pm show suggest putting out things you did not need any more?
We have just done that with a unit we no longer wanted and it went to a GOOD HOME in 20 minutes!

I'm glad it worked for you. The only time we did this the computer desk in question was taken away and trashed in the local park.

From now on it's an ad in the newsagent or Freecycle.

HugoSP

Just to add.

Sold a couple of old mobile phones on e bay recently plus DD2s Gameboy Advance.

Now I probably need to sell a couple more mobiles that were replaced by new Christmas Presents. I have found that e bay is the best place to get rid of these especially if you've got good feedback.

Kevin the £3.99 e bay courier (now £5.99 see this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200062195616&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_RSEE_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT&refitem=200060455636&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget) has made it profitable for me to sell a job lot of Haynes Workshop Manuals - none of which would have sold well if at all on it's own due to postage.

I also sold an old (very) Raleigh Tamahawk (baby chopper of the 70s) on e bay for £20. It was in rough condition and needed work. But there is a cult market out there.

HugoSP

....another £41.96 in scrap sales:

App 7kg of copper pipe
28 KG of redundant lead found underground when I was digging up my garden!
A bit of aluminium
app 3kg of old unsusable brass fittings
and some 80kg of cast iron and steel, some of which was an old mains water pipe - this fetched £3.

My wife may moan about me stockpiling scrap in a corner of the garden, but we are renovating our property at the moment and come accross plenty of it.

Anything metallic gets put to one side and sorted. Copper pipe is now separated from solder and compression fittings - these are also sold but fetch a lower price, and just bring the price of the copper down if they're not separated off.

I didn't take any cable in this time but I have a small but growing mound of that. I tend to strip off the outer insulation, remove the bare earth that gets lumped in with the copper pipes, then the rest goes into a bag.

Linda's_Man

With the probable introduction of weighing your wheelie bin and checking how much you recycle why not start now by taking your recyclable glass, plastic and metal items to a Tesco store that has a recycling station. These actually give you a point for every 4 items recycled. My wife discovered by accident that if you take a tin can and put it and its lid in separately that counts as two items. I know this seems to be small change but the knock on is that Tesco monitor who recycles and send them vouchers for being green. Our recycling station is right alongside the petrol station so I drop my wife off to do the recycling and I get in the queue for fuel, so we don't go out of our way either. The other thing Tesco has going for it is that they take drinks cartons that our council won't take and when we put all our paper and card in the Tesco bins it doesn't end up in ours or other peoples front gardens, as it does with the council collectors.

Bungarm2001

My OH recently sold off a load of scrap metal...mainly lead and copper that has been left over from various plumbing jobs he has done and collected over the past few months.

I've been nagging him for months if not years to save up every bit 'cos I know for a fact that some times he hasn't been bothered and left bits of waste under floorboards etc!

I have been keen on recycling for cash since I was a kid in the 60's. I remember my Dad was a very keen recycler of metal (he was an electrician and would spend hours stripping off the insulation from waste wiring of any kind) ...mainly because it would raise him some cash.

Anyway, back to the OH; he took his collection of metals to the scrappers the other day; result; £160+ in his pocket and someone else now TOTALLY converted to recycling!! He now mourns the loss of all the stuff he has chucked away over the years!!

Something else I recycle are plastic containers of various kinds. I keep all yoghurt pots (useful for loads of kids activities as well as planting up various seeds etc) Also keep the plastic lidded tubs that supermarket fruits are packed in. Some of these are used for seedlings and some are good enough for packed lunches etc...in fact, almost any plastic container can be re-used at least once. Doesn't rasie any actual cash, but definitely saves some. My bin is hardly full these days. Just as well with fortnightly collections!