Materials A-Z

Telephone directories

Telephone directories can be recycled in your mixed paper and card recycling container at your home. They can also be taken to paper banks at all Household Waste Recycling Centres.

Textiles

See clothes

Tights

By cutting up your old tights you can use them to attach your plants to stakes in the garden.

Tissue

Handkerchiefs can be used, washed and reused endlessly in place of tissues. Tissues should be composted or disposed of in the household bin.

Tools

Tools for Self Reliance collect and refurbish hand tools (except gardening tools), for free shipment to under-developed countries. You can deliver the tools or they can be collected if necessary.

Towels

See clothes

Toys & games

Share your family toys and games with your friends, you could have a club so that you are not all buying the same one saving money and keeping up with not only one of your favourites but many. They could also be reused in your local waiting room.
Many games console stores will accept pre-owoned games and sell them on cheaper to customers
Most charity shops will also accept them.
 

Tyres

Over 38 million tyres are discarded in the UK each year and can sometimes occur as fly tipping on garage forecourts, industrial estates or car parks.
As garages are responsible for disposal and recycling of waste they create you should get your tyres changed at garages rather than replace your own. Look out for garages that send tyres for recycling, see local directory.
These can also be taken to your local Household Waste Recycling Centre