By giving unwanted furniture, clothes, phones and computers to charities and other organisations, you will be helping the environment, saving money and benefiting the community.
You can donate shoes and clothes at our recycling banks. A number of organisations in the area will collect electronics and furniture from your home. You can also recycle your mobile phones and accessories at collection points across the borough.
We also provide a bulky waste collection service, at cost.
Contacts
Below are organisations you can contact to recycle various goods.
Mobile phones and accessories
You can recycle your mobile phone and accessories (hands free kits, chargers, batteries, data cables etc.) at any library across the borough and at the Civic Centre’s main enquiry desk. Alternatively, you can send your equipment to FREEPOST, Bromley Fonebak Recycling. Please remember to remove your Sim card before donating your phone.
The mobile phones and accessories we collect are sent for reuse and recycling. Handsets that can be reused are refurbished. The plastics from accompanying accessories are recycled into objects like traffic cones and buckets. All money raised is donated to the Bromley Mayor’s Charity Appeal.
Computer equipment
Charity: Computer Aid International
Telephone: 020 8361 5540
Address: 10 Brunswick Industrial Park, Brunswick Way, London, N11 1JL Residents can deliver computer equipment and accessories to the above address or use the door-to-door delivery service at a charge. Computer Aid data wipes all donated computers to U.S military standards. Reusable equipment will go to support hospitals and schools in the developing world.
Furniture and other equipment
Furniture should be in good condition and the majority will require a fire label on upholstered items.
Charity: British Heart Foundation
Telephone: 08444 944 167
Address: 5 Nisbett Walk, The Mall, Sidcup, BA14 6BP
Collection area: Bromley area
Opening times: 9.30am–5pm Monday to Saturday and 10am-3pm on Sundays
A second-hand furniture and electrical superstore.
Charity: Give2Give
Telephone: 0845 6806888
Address: 28 Station Approach, Hayes, Kent, BR2 7EH
Collection area: Bromley area including Sidcup, Bexley, Bexleyheath
Phone line opening times: Monday -Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-4pm
Freecycle is a non-profit organisation which allows people to advertise free items they no longer want.
Aluminium foil
Charity: Guide Dogs for the Blind
Address: 32 Rochester Avenue, Bromley, BR1 3DW.
Details: clean aluminium foil food containers, cooking foil and milk bottle tops can be left inside the front porch at this address for recycling.