What

 Where you can take these

What they do with them

Art / craft
materials – clean items for use in school art projects

Reverse Art Truck
(formerly Reverse Garbage Truck)
17 Greenwood Ave, Ringwood
Phone/Fax 9879 1264
OR
188T Quarry Rd, Narre Warren
Phone 9707 1333

Tues-Fri 9am – 5pm , Sat 9am – 1pm

Collect rejects, seconds and factory offcuts for distribution to schools, early learning centres and the community.

Baby things

St Kilda Mums – 14 Winterton Rd, Clayton. See ‘Donate things‘. Opening hours generally 10am
until 3pm Mon-Fri, or 10.30am-1pm  Saturdays
but check the website especially during school holidays.

Melbourne Gemach – contact Rochi in Ripponlea 0413 956 384

Receive requests from Maternal Health Nurses and local social service agencies on behalf of families in need. Then try to meet or exceed each request with quality pre-loved donations.

Batteries

Aldi and Officeworks have
collection bins at the front of all stores for AA, AAA, C, D & 9V
batteries.

Battery World collects all types of
batteries.

Libraries in Glen Eira & Stonnington also have collection boxes for batteries.

Recycle

Bicycles

Any Bicycle Super Store
(eg 1030 Dandenong Rd, Carnegie).
Adult size bikes go to Bicycles for
Humanity
(though not bikes that are covered in rust)

Send to Africa as sustainable transport to help break the poverty cycle. Bikes can travel twice as fast and
carry 4 times the load as people on foot. Shipping containers in which they are sent become bike workshops, providing employment, skills, training and much more for communities.

Bras &
swimwear, new or used

Uplift Project – 4 Webb St, Caulfield
(or see their website for other addresses)

Send them to disadvantaged
communities where a bra is unobtainable or unaffordable. Sends them wherever
they have requests.

Bread tags

Bread Tags for Wheelchairs
Follow this link to find your nearest collection point.

Made of high impact polystyrene, the tags have a good recycling value. 200kg of the tags bring in enough money to buy a wheelchair for a needy person in South Africa.

Cars & other
vehicles

 Kids Under Cover 
https://www.kuc.org.au/get-involved/donate-your-car/

They collect your car (minus the number plates as you need to cancel your registration first), pass it on to auctioneers who sell it. The proceeds go to Kids Under Cover who use it in their work to combat youth homelessness. Your donation is even tax deductible!

Books

Children’s books:
Australian Books for Children of Africa
– see www.abca.org.au 
15 Seaview St, Caulfield South

OR
Schools without Books
82 Reid St, South Morang (shed in the back carpark)

Other books:

I Love Books
12 Arcade Rd, Mont Albert North Tel. 9898 1677
– buy all current-edition school textbooks for the Australian and Victorian Curriculum including study guides

The Footpath Library
– Provides books for people experiencing homelessness

Your local street library – boxes people
set up outside their homes for people to leave and take books.

ABCA provides second-hand books and writing materials for underprivileged schools in rural Africa. Note:
Books must be in good condition and suit children aged 12 years and under.

Schools without Books sends books to schools in third world countries – board books,
picture books, fiction & general non-fiction (up to ~ age 16).  All
atlases (that don’t have USSR) & dictionaries are treasured, & any
encyclopedia from 2005 onward. No text books.

Clean clothing in good condition

Avalon Centre
1936 Malvern Rd, Malvern East
– see their website for current needs
(alternatively most op shops)

Avalon goes out on a regular basis distributing clothes, bedding and warmth through work and interaction with the homeless.

Clothing not in
good condition

Brotherhood of St Laurence
stores

Make a Wish Foundation has bins in many Westfield malls

SCR Group Clothing dropoff – has bins next to several railway stations.

H&M clothing stores accept clothing in any condition

Brotherhood passes them on to Melbourne Cleaning Cloths. Make A

Wish Foundation passes them on to 
King Cotton Australia

H&M passes them on to their business partner I:CO who use them for rewear (as second-hand clothes), reuse (for other products such as cleaning cloths) or recycling (as textile fibres for things like insulation

Clothing suitable for job interviews

Ready Set – 24 Eastern Rd
South Melbourne
Tel. 9078 1750
OR
Groomed to Go/Dress for Success South East Melbourne
Tel. 9770 0220
Bayside Centre
25 Ross Smith Ave East
Frankston

Pass them on to people who are unemployed and going for job interviews, or starting work in a new job and can’t yet afford to buy appropriate clothes

Computers &
IT equipment

B2C Community IT Recyclers
– A social enterprise of The Werx Foundation, offering work experience and training
to people with disabilities.
3/3 Elma Rd, Cheltenham.
Open for drop offs:
Tues,Wed & Thu 9:30am – 3.30pm or
phone 9005-0101 for appointment.

Officeworks also has a free nationwide recycling service for TVs, computers,
printers and computer peripherals.

B2C accepts all forms of IT equipment and peripherals except printers, regardless of age, specs or
working condition and work to prevent these from entering landfill. Re-use as much as possible, integrating PC components into refurbished computers. What can’t be re-used is dismantled into its constituent parts & sent for processing to responsible waste partners.

DVDs, CDs, VHS,
cassette tapes & cases, floppy disks

Stonnington Council – drop off at:

Prahran
Town Hall Service Centre
Any library in Stonnington or Glen Eira.
Also Stonnington Service Centre – 311 Glenferrie Rd
Prahran Aquatic Centre
Harold Holt Swim Centre or

Stonnington Waste Transfer Station
32 Weir St, Malvern or
Monash Waste Transfer and Recycling Station
380 Ferntree Gully Rd, Notting Hill

Recycle

Electrical items

Brotherhood of St Laurence
Tel. 1300 366 283
Second-hand working electrical items are accepted at Brotherhood stores. See
also Whitegoods listing below for Fridges.

Electrical items are safety-tested before resale.

Furniture (in
good condition) & whitegoods (in good working order) + lots more

Eastern Emergency Relief Network

Donations can be delivered to their warehouse 9am to 1pm Monday to Friday or volunteers can collect from Cities of Whitehorse, Manningham, Maroonday, Knox, Monash & Boroondara.

Provide emergency aid to those in need. See their About us  page

Glasses (sight &
reading)

Lions Recycle 4 Sight
– mail to:
Lions Recycle For Sight, PO Box 3021
Clontarf MDC 4019 (or approach your local Lions Club)

OR

Temple Beth Israel
– 76-82 Alma Rd, St Kilda

OR

Care With Quality
– 62 Rosstown Rd, Carnegie

Cleans, grades and labels used spectacles for distribution in third world countries.

Remove the lenses and send frames to Israel to provide glasses for those in need.

Hearing aids

SoundFair
Suite 1, Level 2, 517 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Tel. 9510 1577
OR
Lions Recycling for Sight Australia (see Glasses entry above – they also collect hearing aids)

Provide recycled hearing aids to disadvantaged people – single income families, working poor, unemployed,
refugees and asylum seekers.

Household goods
in working order

Donate Direct

See also ‘Something else to give away’
below

Matches items being given away
– televisions, computers, bedding, mobile phones, kitchen appliances and
white goods – with charities and Community Service Providers who pass them on at no charge to disadvantaged people who need them.

Light globes-
incandescent, compact fluorescent, downlight & fluorescent tubes

Libraries in Glen Eira have
collection boxes for fluorescent light globes and tubes.

Stonnington Waste Transfer Station
32 Weir St, Malvern
Phone: 8290 1333
Open Mon to Fri 10am to 3:30pm
Sat 9-3 & Sun 10-3

Monash Waste Transfer
(also collect corks and polystyrene)
380 Ferntree Gully Rd, Notting Hill
Tel. 9518 3767
7 days a week 7.30 am To 4 pm.

City of Whitehorse – see their website for dropoff points

Recycled through CMA Ecocycle – see how in 
this brochure or similar organisations.

Note: Handle fluorescent
globes with great care – they contain mercury which can be very harmful to health.

Makeup,
toiletries, dinner sets, cutlery, pots & pans, toasters, kettles – all
new and unused

Impact for Women
impactforwomen@gmail.com
PO Box 277, Glen Huntly 3163
See http://www.impactforwomen.org.au/bags-of-love-ideas.html for more ideas

Make ‘bags of love’ to give to women escaping violent family situations.

Material/fabric
(including sheets, doona covers, pillowslips, etc)

Boomerang Bags
(See their website
boomerangbags.org for your nearest
dropoff point)

Upcycle the material buy sewing it to make reusable shopping bags

Mattresses

Drop off at the Resource
Recovery Centre, corner White & Boundary Streets, South Melbourne (Melway 2E F11), or Port Phillip Council residents can book a hard rubbish collection

OR

Fee-for-service collection for
https://www.softlanding.com.au/ (a social enterprise) or www.bedcollect.com.au

Break them down & use
fabric to make carpet underlay & weed mats, timber frames for kindling and send springs to metal recyclers

Mobile phones

 Aussie Recycling Program (ARP)
Factory 29, 260 Wickham Rd, Highett
Tel. 9532 1237

OR

MobileMuster
OR
mobile phone retailers or Officeworks

ARP recycles useable phones and on-sells them cheaply to third world countries, thus enabling people to afford a phone. Those that can’t be reused are dismantled and disposed of
responsibly.

Paint

Paintback – see paintback.com.au for
closest location

Separate packaging and waste liquid, then recycle containers and treat waste paint for energy recovery for solvent and liquid/solid separation for water-based paint.

Pens and markers

Officeworks – selected stores
collect these for recycling. Looking to roll out the program nationally over the next year.

Recycling

Plastic wrap

Coles and Woolworths have collection bins for these at the front of their stores. This is passed on to RedCycle. NB NOT cling wrap.

Use to make recycled plastic items such as park benches and furniture for schools and kindergartens.

Polystyrene

Monash Waste Transfer
– amounts up to ½ cubic metre
380 Ferntree Gully Rd, Notting Hill
Tel. 9518 3767

Recycle it

Printer
cartridges & toner bottles

Recycling boxes at participating Officeworks, Australia Post, Harvey Norman, JB HiFi and Good Guys stores. Or phone the Cartridges Hotline (1800 24 24 73). Businesses
or departments using more than 3 cartridges per month can  register online for their FREE collection service.

Recycle them through Close the Loop, who have invented several technologies to safely shred & recycle ink & toner cartridges, toner bottles & other print consumables.

Sports equipment
in reusable condition

VAFA Umpires Association rooms
170 Glenhuntly Rd, Elsternwick  (Elsternwick Park), Mondays & Wednesdays 6pm-7.30pm, or see www.bootsforall.org.au

Distribute quality, new and near-new sporting equipment to vulnerable Australians to enable sport
participation.

Towels, blankets,
flat sheets, pillowcases,
face washers

RSPCA Adoption Centres 
http://www.rspcavic.org/giving/other-ways-to-give/donations-for-animals
3 Burwood Hwy, Burwood East

Use for bedding and other requirements for animals in their care.

Used stamps (from
envelopes)

Women of the University Fund
(supports various charities including children & youth ages 6-under 25, and financially disadvantaged people )
The Mews, Government House Grounds
1 Government House Drive
Melbourne 3004

OR
Used Stamps, Kidney Health Australia
GPO Box 9993, Melbourne  3001125 Cecil St, South Melbourne

Trim and sort stamps, then sell to local stamp dealers and stamp collectors.

Whitegoods –
especially fridges, freezers, washing machines & dryers

Whitegoods Refurbishment & Recycling Program (Kids off the Kerb)
Currently collects from the following councils:
Whittlesea, Moonee Valley, Melbourne, Maribyrnong, Hume, Darebin, Monash,
Yarra & Melton – call 9982 5600 to arrange a collection time or visit their factory store in Thomastown.

Train young people to test, repair and clean the used whitegoods & electronics. Refurbished goods are sold with proceeds going back into the program. Otherwise they are used for spare parts or scrap metal recycling.

Xrays

Stonnington Council collects
these at libraries, pools and its service centre. eg
Malvern Library, Harold Holt Swim Centre.

Glen Eira Council libraries also have collection boxes for these.

X-ray recycling mainly aims to recover silver from both films and chemicals. The silver is then sold into the precious metals market.

Residual chemicals are handled according to EPA requirements. Where possible they are
recycled, or neutralised and disposed of as trade waste.

Something
else to give away?

Advertise your second-hand freebies on one of the following websites with a photo.
Could be just what someone wants:

au.ziilch.com (note ii)
www.freecycle.org
Facebook: free stuff Melbourne
Facebook marketplace
www.ozrecycle.com
www.gumtree.com.au

The amount of electricity saved by recycling a single aluminium can is enough to run the average television set for three hours.

– Clean Up Australia