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

Clothes in good condition should be re-used. Clothes can passed onto friends and relatives, taken to charity shops or to a jumble sale, or you may be able to sell clothes on online auction sites. Some Household Waste Recycling Centres provide textiles banks where people can deposit their unwanted clothes, sheets, towels etc.

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

Materials in good condition should be re-used. Some Household Waste Recycling Centres provide textiles banks where people can deposit their unwanted clothes, sheets, towels etc.

Toys & games

Share your family toys and games with your friends and neighbours; you could have a club so that you are not all buying the same ones, helping you to save money and still keep up with all the new favourite toys.

Once the toys and games are no longer wanted, they could be donated to your local doctor's surgery or community centre where they can be re-used in the waiting room. Many games console stores will trade older games for new ones and then sell them on cheaper to new customers.

Most charity shops will also accept donations of toys and games. Computer games can also can be donated in the media banks at your local Household Waste Recycling Centre.

Tubes (card)

Kitchen roll and toilet roll tubes can be recycled in your mixed paper and card recycling container

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