Items such as furniture, white goods, and TVs can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centre free of charge (located in Cholmley Way in the Stainsacre Lane Industrial Estate).

You could also donate good quality unwanted items to your local charity shop or give them to friends or family for reuse.

There are also lots of online options, such as Freecycle or eBay, to help you pass on your unwanted items to others.

Even if you think your item is passed its best, there is always someone who will find a use.

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TEACHER Martin Luke is proud of his `rubbish’ classroom.

Mr Luke, science teacher at Holy Family College in Heywood, Rochdale, has used the philosophy `one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ and for the past year he has used the worldwide recycling scheme Freecycle to kit out the class.

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To you it may be unwanted junk but to someone else it may be a priceless treasure.

A Freecycle network has been set up in Bracknell Forest to help people exchange and recycle unwanted items free-of-charge rather than throw them away.

The local network started in February and already has more than 630 members who have made 570 postings.

Freecycle believes it has directed more than 1.5 tonnes of waste away from landfill in the borough in that time.

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A SHOW flat at a new complex of environmentally-friendly eco homes has been furnished on the cheap - with furniture, appliances and ornaments snapped up for a bargain on the internet.
Developers of Sheffield’s £5.2 million eco homes, in Norfolk Park, have brought in “well-loved” furnishings, bought from websites eBay and Freecycle, where internet users sell and exchange unwanted items.

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Stop using EBay as an unlimited shopping outlet and start using it to sell all those unwanted and unloved things around your home. If that sounds too hi-tech, hold a garage sale. If the contents of your house are, ahem, not the sort of thing for which people would necessarily pay, you could always join a recycling community via freecycle.org and give your unwanted goods to the first person who will collect.

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The popularity of the Bury-freecycle group is illustrated by the fact it already has more than 150 members. That’s a tribute to the foresight and dedication of Angie Gallagher who launched the local organisation.

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A NEW group intends to bring communities together by saving them money and cutting the amount of unwanted goods going to landfill.
Freeconomy Wrexham’s aim is to hold monthly bring and take events in communities across Wrexham county where people can bring unwanted household items such as furniture, computers, bric a brac and clothing and leave them for others who would like them to take free of charge.

“It’s kind of like a swap shop but you don’t have to bring anything or you don’t have to take anything,” said Freecycle Wrexham’s James Whelan.

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Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the next 1,000 years rotting in landfill. So I decided to have a go at Freecycling it instead, which to my surprise threw up some interesting questions about online identity.

If you’ve not come across it before, Freecycle is a group that enables you to donate unwanted goods to the local community. There also seems to be no limit to weird and wacky items offered on Freecycle - who would have thought old video tapes or 5kg of rice could find a new home?

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* Grow your own vegetables and herbs in pots or a garden. You can eat these yourself or exchange them for items such as beds and bicycles, via the Freecycle website (www.uk.freecycle.org)

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PEOPLE are being invited to put clutter to good use while spring cleaning.

Worcestershire County Council’s waste prevention team is encouraging residents to think twice about what they throw out at this time of year.

…residents can try offering their unwanted items on the internet by using the Freecycle website. Local Freecycle groups can be found at www.freecycle.org

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