Batteries and Electrical Items
Recycling Household Batteries
The Sorting House has partnered with Valpak, a leading provider of environmental compliance services to recycle our old batteries for free, in an environmentally friendly way.
You can find the recycling box in The Sorting House foyer by the post boxes & caretakers office.
Recycling Car Batteries
Halfords
Halfords is a UK retailer of motoring and cycling products and services. They provide vehicle servicing, MOT, maintenance and repairs.
You can deposit car batteries at any Halford’s store free of charge.
The nearest branch is at Manchester Fort, Cheetham Hill.
Recycling
Donating Electrical Items
Unfortunately, The Sorting House cannot assist with recycling certain types of unwanted items on-site. However, there are several ethical off-site options available for recycling goods. Some even offer collection.
The British Heart Foundation (BHF)
A national charity who focus on raising funds to research cures and treatment for heart and circulatory diseases.
Certain BHF stores accept furniture and electrical item donation for saleable items with a couple of exceptions. They even offer free collections!
Small items can be posted for free too.
Donation
Mustard Tree
A local charity focussing on tackling both the causes and consequences of poverty and homelessness.
Mustard Tree can accept furniture and electrical item donation for saleable items with a couple of exceptions. While Mustard Tree is just around the corner for dropping items off, they offer free collections too.
Donation
Freecycle
Freecycle is essentially a free version of Gumtree. It’s a grass-roots and non-profit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns and neighbourhoods. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
Donation
Recycling Electrical Items
Currys
A electrical retailer specialising in white goods, electronics, computers and mobile phones.
They offer free collections at the time of delivering new items, and you can drop off batteries & electrical items in-store for free.
They even offer vouchers under certain circumstances for doing so.
Recycling
Revive IT
ReviveIT are a secure technology hardware recycler who offer free recycling. They refurbish and sell unwanted items, preventing them going to landfill.
They offer free collections for saleable items too, and charge a fee to collect broken ones for disposal.
Recycling
Reliance Street Recycling Centre (“The Tip”)
Currently managed by Suez Recycling, this is the modern replacement for traditional landfill, and otherwise known as ‘the tip’.
While they able to recycle many items, much of what goes here ends up in landfill in some form. Please consider donation before using this option, although things like building waste can only go here.
Recycling
Recycle Now
Recycle Now is the national recycling campaign for England and Northern Ireland, which aims to motivate more people, to recycle more of the right things, more often.
It’s a search engine which connects people with recycling options based on what type of item they’re trying to recycle.
Simply visit the site, state the item you wish to recycle and your postcode. It’ll then suggest where you’re able to recycle your items.
Recycling
Council Collection
If your electrical items are broken, you can arrange council collection. For information on how to arrange this, see the Large Items page.
For further information on recycling, check out the Recycling for Greater Manchester website.