Twyford Village Partnership

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Please note: Long-life light bulbs and fluoresent tubes contain mercury and therefore should not be put in your normal household waste.  They are subject to the WEEE recycling scheme, so manufacturers and importers have an obligation to collect and recycle them. They can be disposed of at Longshot Lane or Smallmead or by contacting http://www.weeecollect.it/ Tel: 0871 2000 962

Oxfam Bridal Wear & Accessories, 96 Broadway, Bracknell, RG12 1AR (01344 427698)

Brita Water filters

Cartridges recycled by Robert Dyas and John Lewis stores

Clothes/Bedding

Feed The Children, 2 Tavistock Industrial Estate, Ruscombe Lane, Ruscombe (0118 932 0095)

Composting

Composters from Wokingham Borough Council: £22 for 220L or £23 for 330L + £5 delivery

(0845 077 0757)

Electrical & Electronic Equipment

• ‘WEEE Collect’ free collection for most items, small charge for fridge/freezers (0871 2000 962) www.weecollect.it
• British Heart Foundation Furniture & Electrical Store, 68-70 Broadway, Bracknell
  
  (0844 248 9136)
• Oxfam Bracknell, 96 Broadway, Bracknell accepts lamps, hair straightners/curlers, stereos but not TVs or white goods
• Sue Ryder, 176 Crockhamwell Rd, Woodley will accept small electrical items but larger items can be taken to the Sue Ryder Home, Joyce Grove, Nettlebed, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 5DF (01491 641384) 9am -12.30pm, Mon-Fri

Your local schools and pre-schools can always find a use for these items in their craft activities.

Flowerpots

Sheeplands Hare Hatch Garden Centre have a crate for recycled plastic and clay pots

Foreign coins

• Feed the Children, 2 Tavistock Industrial Estate, Ruscombe Lane, Ruscombe
  
  0118 932 0095)
• Oxfam

Freecycle

• Age Concern, Auntie Joyce’s Charity Shop, Day Centre, Southlake Crescent, Woodley. Tues-Fri 10am -2pm. Will also collect; phone Les Green on 0118 969 1471 or email les.green@ageconcernwoodley.org.uk
• British Heart Foundation, 68-70 Broadway, Bracknell. Deliver to rear of store. For free collection: 0844 248 9136
• Chissock Woodcraft, The Coach House, Bear Lane, Hare Hatch, RG10 9XR (0118 9404499)
• Christian Community Action, 369 Oxford Road, Reading. Tel. 0118 951 2338 or email: warehouse@ccam.org.uk
• Oxfam, 96-100 Broadway, Bracknell. Any furniture with padding/stuffing must have a fire label attached. (01344 427698)
• Thames Hospicecare, for furniture collections, phone 01753 866303
• Sue Ryder Home, Joyce Grove, Nettlebed, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 5DF (01491 641384) 9am -12.30pm, Mon-Fri

Household batteries

Recycled by Robert Dyas (containers near their cash tills) and Waitrose (hand in at Customer Services). (Since February 2010, all retailers selling more than 32 kg a year of household batteries have to provide recycling points for waste batteries.)
Household waste

Extra black boxes available free of charge from Wokingham Borough Council. Up to 2 extra green sacks £5 each. Tel: 0118 974 6302 or email waste.services@wokingham.gov.uk

• Feed The Children, 2 Tavistock Industrial Estate, Ruscombe Lane, Ruscombe
  (0118 932 0095)
• Thames Valley Air Ambulance (0300 999 0135)
• Oxfam shops. Each old working handset is worth an average £5 to them

Your local schools and pre-schools can always find a use for paper that is blank on one side.

Postage stamps

• United Reform Church - leave a 5mm border around each stamp
• RSPB or RNIB

• Feed The Children, 2 Tavistock Industrial Estate, Ruscombe Lane, Ruscombe
  (0118 932 0095)
• Thames Valley Air Ambulance (call Accutecc on 01279 401403) or email enquiries@accutecc.co.uk United Reform Church
  

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2. Local Recycling Sites

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3. Household Waste Recycling Centres

For more information: http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/waste/tips/

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4. Community Skip Programme

Broadhinton (off Hurst Rd), Twyford 2nd Saturday of even months, 8-11am

Charvil Village Hall (rear of) Every 4th Saturday, 8.00-9.20am

Milestone Avenue, Charvil Every 4th Saturday, 9.30-11.00am

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