Recycling Specific Items
Freecycle
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Batteries
ANY shop selling batteries (including all supermarkets) must accept these for recycling. Waterswallows also takes them.
Clothes and shoes
As well as charity shops, there are clothing banks at Waterswallows and in Bradwell and Chapel Co-ops, Hope Valley Garden Centre, Hathersage Car Park, Litton and Doveholes. If there is enough demand, we can try and apply for one for Castleton.
Pictured left, the clothing bank at Hope Valley Garden Centre.
Other places to recycle clothes
- Recycle Now/Clothing and Textiles
- Air Ambulance Service: Clothing and Toy drop off
- Swopping | M&S
or give your clothes ‘Another life at M&S‘ by booking a repair or alteration
Electrical Items
Apart from taking them to Waterswallows, High Peak BC will collect small electrical items if you book a slot here. Some shops eg Waitrose, B&Q will take small items, whether or not they sold them to you. Try this link for local places to recycle items such as light bulbs etc. The Co-op at Bradwell, B&Q in Buxton or Waterswallows will accept light bulbs.
Furniture
Glossopdale Furniture Project
Oxfam Fulwood, Sheffield
Ikea – Buyback and Recycle
Health, Wellness, Dental Products and Blister packs
Boots will recycle empty beauty, health, wellness and dental products you can’t put in the brown bin. They also take empty blister packs as do many other chemists. To recycle at Boots you need to download their app but you do get rewards! Recycling at Boots
Plant Pots
Some nurseries eg Longdendale Nursery at Blackbrook will take plant pots and you can take them to Aldi in Chapel, some other supermarkets and garden centres – check https://www.recyclenow.com.
Reading Glasses
Reading glasses can be donated to the Lions Club Recycling for Sight Programme via Vision Express in Buxton (Spring Gardens). The chemist in Tideswell and Specsavers will also accept glasses for recycling.
Secondhand Books
Apart from Charity shops and some second hand bookshop, Eyam Book Barn will take books – all income goes to local community groups, and Castleton Methodist Church.
Scrivener’s Books and Bookbinding in Buxton will buy secondhand books in good condition provided you contact them first preferably with a list of titles to sell: email books@scrivenersbooks.co.uk.
Waterswallows has a container for books from time to time.
Also see https://www.recyclenow.com
Soft Plastic
These may get recycled at kerbside in a few years time but in the meantime you need to take them to a supermarket eg the Co-op, Morrisons , Aldi, Waitrose (Buxton) etc. or M & S Plastics and packaging | Marks & Spencer. Supermarkets vary in what they accept as soft plastic so you need to check! https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/plastic-bags-and-wrapping.
Some local examples
Co-op in Bradwell
Aldi
Morrisons
Tesco
Waitrose
Compost bags can be recycled at Chatsworth Garden Centre and branches of Dobbies (i.e. Chesterfield).
Castleton Village website 