Toys

When it comes to toys that your children are no longer interested in, or have grown out of, consider donating good condition toys to a local preschool, parent-toddler group or charity shop.

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Any broken or damaged toys can be taken to your local Repair Café (Lindfield Repair Café can be found here) to find out if they can be repaired.

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Finally, you can recycle them at our Recycling Centres, but please remove batteries if they have them, and put these in the battery recycling area, to reduce the possibility of fires.

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Books

Do you have shelves full of books, hardbacks and paperbacks, that you will not read or use for reference? They are there because, well, that is where they have been for years!

Well first of all, do look at all your books. Do you have any really old books? They could have a value. I had a copy of ‘When You Were Very Young’ by A A Milne. I contacted Jonkers Rare Books online and they paid me £20. I paid for postage and they paid £20 into my bank account.

Another option is to download an app from www.Ziffit.com. This will allow you to scan your books and tell you instantly if it has a value. For example, James Patterson’s The Ninth Month = 60p, and Lynne Truss, Eats Shoots and Leaves = 53p. Imagine what a whole shelf is worth?

Another site to try is www.webuyanybooks.co.uk. This website specialises in those big expensive academic tomes. Happy scanning.

And finally, if they cannot go to a charity shop, or you cannot sell them, you can take them to the Household Waste Recycling Centre – ‘The Tip’ to you and I. There is a special bin just for books, all will be recycled.

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Wrapping paper, glitter and seasonal

Wrapping paper – do the scrunch test – if it stays scrunched it can be recycled in your kerbside bin.

If it springs open it contains plastic and can be recycled at major supermarkets in their plastic bag recycling bins.
Always remove large bows and as much Sellotape as possible.

Had a real Christmas tree? www.midsussex.gov.uk/tree-recycling

Artificial trees – Take to the tip. Normal ones in the waste container bay please, fibre optic ones in the electricals container bay. Broken toys – if they cannot be fixed by yourself – or at a Repair Café – take to the tip.

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In your blue top recycling bin:

• Celebratory sweet and chocolate tins and tubes – metal, cardboard or paper can all be recycled in your recycling bin

• Glass bottles, beer, wine and champagne. Without the tops please. Metal tops can go in the recycle bin separately. (Plastic tops and corks in the black top rubbish bin)

• Mince pie plastic trays and the foil trays

• Black plastic food trays can be recycled in West Sussex

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Disposable plastic plates and cutlery – try to avoid as they will have to go in your black top rubbish bin.

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Things to take to the tip:

• Broken crockery or cups – it happens at parties!

• Tinsel and baubles

• Christmas fairy lights – these are classed as WEEE (Waste Electrical items)

Remember you will need to show you are a resident of West Sussex to use the Tip. Don’t forget your ID.

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Please do not place batteries in your general rubbish bin or your recycling bin. Please recycle them at shops that sell batteries. All shops that sell batteries have to provide, by law, battery recycling points, and these are generally found near the checkout.

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