Our Charity recycling scheme

Since 2012, our charity has been collecting waste resources which the council does not take in their household recycling bins and we send them to the best recycling solution. We work with companies such as TerraCycle, Recycling for Good Causes and Recycle4Charity among others. These materials are downcycled into new goods and raise money for the Springboard Project, Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance, Link to Hope, NECS in Uganda, Purple Community Fund, William Penn School in Coolham, Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance and our charity. You can collect through us and our village recycling locations:

  • Make up – any brand: lip balms, tinted lip balms, lip shimmers & lipsticks, mascara tubes & wands, eye shadow & compacts, personal care flexible plastic & metallic tubes, face wipe packaging
  • Pencils, crayons, plastic pens, highlighters, felt tips, permanent markers (put in a 2nd hand bag)
  • Water filters any brand
  • Inkjet cartridges (refilled or branded) give to us or send to Recycle 4 Charity with us as the beneficiary
  • Ferrero Rocher boxes, aluminium wrappers, plastic trays. Kinder foil, Kinder rigid plastic packaging, Kinder and Nutella flexible plastic pouches. Kinder ice cream packaging
  • Marigold rubber gloves and packaging (nitrile, vinyl, latex)
  • All plastic wrappers from sweet and savoury biscuits and cakes
  • All plastic bread and bakery products, Warburtons wax wrap
  • Bottle tops, milk bottle tops, glasses and contact lenses, inhalers, bras
  • Cheese wax and candle stubs

We are often asked how these materials can be recycled, so here are a few other ways in home territory you can recycle other waste resources: 

Natural wine corks (not synthetic) can be given to us or any Majestic Wine store.

Vapes are collected by retailers who sell vapes, at Waitroses, The Pavilions Leisure Centre in Horsham, us and the recycling centre Hop Oast. Plus Chanctonbury Leisure Centre in Storrington and all of the council recycling centres.

Batteries are collected by many local supermarket, The Pavilions Leisure Centre in Horsham, us and the Chanctonbury Leisure Centre in Storrington or put them in a bag on top of your bin on collection day.

Blister packs – foil only pill blister packs can be added to a ball of foil ball in your council blue lidded recycling bin. Blister packs made of foil and plastic can be recycled at Boots stores.

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Valuable and Data-Sensitive Items

Alongside everyday packaging, we also collect items that hold extra value or may contain personal data. These need to be donated at one of our pop-up collection events in Amberley, Arundel, Partridge Green, Slinfold, Southwater, Storrington, Thakeham, or at the Sussex Green Hub in Horsham on the last Saturday of each month at the United Reformed Church.

Items include:

  • Jewellery and Watches (in any material, even if damaged or broken)
  • Currency – any coins or banknotes, UK and foreign (even if out of circulation)
  • Mobile phones
  • Cameras (old film, digital and video)
  • Stamps (loose, single, albums, first day covers, presentation packs)
  • Gadgets (Sat-Navs, iPods, MP3 players, games consoles, games and accessories)

Bring to us or send direct to Recycling for Good Causes with us as the beneficiary.

Ink Cartridge Recycling

We recycle ANY inkjet cartridges, receiving a donation for Original Cartridges but we can recycle refilled inkjet cartridges too. These funds help support our work in state schools. Drop them at your nearest Sussex Green Living recycling location, found here. 

Ink cartridge recycling at work or school

If you would like to set up a collection box at work or school, up to £2 per cartridge will be donated to our environmental work. Just order a pre-paid box or bag from Recycle4Charity and use the Sussex Green Living code C73431.

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Milk bottle top recycling

Plastic Milk Bottle Tops

Plastic bottle tops (attached to the bottle) can be recycled in WSCC household recycling bins but you can donate the lids at our drop offs and support the Springboard Project, Horsham – a community based charity that provides inclusive play and leisure opportunities for families with young children and teenagers with disabilities.

Plastic milk bottle tops can be recycled to make hard plastic toys for children, such as slides and other garden toys. They also go to make more bottle tops!

Income generated from this recycling benefits the Springboard Project in Horsham. It is a community based charity that provides inclusive play and leisure opportunities for families with young children and fun short breaks for children and teenagers with disabilities.

Plastic bottle tops can be recycled in WSCC household recycling bins (squash the air out of the bottle and then put the lid on when the bottle is dry and clean) but we would prefer to give the plastic milk bottle lids to the Springboard Project. If you would like to donate your bottle lids, take them to one of our Horsham District drop off locations as seen here.

The milk bottle lids need to be:

  • Washed and clean.
  • Free of any paper, rubber or foil inserts or labels.
  • Lids which display in a triangle on the underside of the lid the number 2, 02, 4 or 04.

Aluminium Ring Pull Recycling

All aluminium ring pulls can be recycled in council recycling bins, however we collect coloured ring pulls for the Purple Community Fund, which helps Filipino families as part of their livelihood programme. The majority of these families earn a living from recycling the cities’ waste collected from landfills. The programme provides training for women to earn sustainable, reliable incomes by making upcycled products and have the opportunity to start their own business to support their family and keep their children in school.

The aluminium ring pulls we collect are upcycled into merchandise and we sell some of items at Events and at our monthly Sussex Green Hub.

Drop and Donate – put them in a bag and then pop them in our village collection bins or bring them to the Sussex Green Hub.

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Textile recycling

Textile Recycling

West Sussex based mother of 3, Karrie, set up Bags of Support in 2012. She was frustrated by the amount of textile waste produced in this country and the simultaneous need for clothing abroad. This great community organisation helps to raise money for schools, prevents textiles from going to landfill and provides an ongoing supply of clothing and shoes to poor families in Romania as well as supporting communities in Uganda and Malawi.

There is no limit on the number of collections you can have but Bags of Support recommends one a term for the best results.

The clothes need to be clean and in good condition.

To book a one off collection or set up a recycling scheme, email or call 07917 797084. Money raised can go to your school, charity, community initiative or to support Bags of Support work!

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Council Recycling

Learn what you can recycle through your local council. Many councils also offer subsidised composter and water butts.

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Supermarket Recycling

Most supermarkets take soft plastics (more than just your carrier bags!) as well as batteries, water filter cartridges.

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Don’t Recycle!

Have you thought about reusing your packaging and refilling? Or can your item be repaired. Find out more about refills and repair cafes in your area.

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Ink Cartridge Recycling at Work or School

If you would like to set up a collection box at work or school, up to £2 per cartridge will be donated to our environmental work. Order a pre-paid box or bag from Recycle4Charity.