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The Hills Reduce Reuse Recycle Directory
Electronic equipment
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Giving for Reuse
Bicycles
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Pass on your Bikes to someone with younger children in you street, extended family, friends
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Whitehorse Transfer Station Burwood Hw, Vermont South. donates bikes to Brainwave Bikes Bikes are refurbished and sold to support Brainwaves Australia, providing care and support to people with a brain injury or illness. The project runs a secondhand bicycle superstore and provides work experience and transitional employment for participants.
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Smart Phones
Follow the Link to Donate you old Smart Phone and charger to Unemployed workers or the Assylum Seeker Resource centre . ( remove data )
Hearing Aids Eye Glasses
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Towels Blankets
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Animal Aid Coldstream.. Towels, blankets wool jumpers etc ( no pillows no doonas) They will either be sold in their opshops or used as rags bedding etc for animals. Secondhand kennels and dog beds accepted and available by donation. or ask your local Vet
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Electronic Equipment
Equipment Recycle Network in Ringwood accept Personal Computers for refurbishment -these go to people with disabilities especially children .
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They also accept Laptops, Cd, Dvd and Video players and cables for recycling, funds go to a vareity of charities
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They also have a buy and sell listing of disabilty equipment.
Remote Op Shops
The Remote OpShop Project is a new way to give your pre-loved items purpose by supporting the development of independent locally-owned OpShops in Aboriginal communities throughout remote Australia. Remote Opshops list what items they need to save on sending unneed goods.
When travelling in remote communities I noticed how expensive and in appropriate (synthetic ) clothing often was.for the climate. This program not only provides clothes at affordable prices but creates a community work. Consider natural based clothing.when donating. .
Bread Tags for Wheels chairs
Yes you can save up your bread tags send or drop off them for recycling. and in doing so pay for a disadvantage person in South Africa to have a wheel chair. Win Win, keep those pesky tags out of the environment and landfill. See link Aussie Bread tags for Wheelchairs and South African website Drop to Kallista General store, Kallista. Recycled Roots and Leaves Silvan, Tecoma Uniting church.
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MaKe Possum and Joey Pouches and Liners
Got some left over wool, some 100% cotton fabric, then you can make a possum or Joey Pouch with liners for Wires and Wild Life Victoria , click link for instructions.
Here are some I made from scraps of wool and a soft cotton shirt.
Save a piano / donate a piano.
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Recycled pianos saves pianos from landfill, either restoring them to playable condition or repurposing them into attractive items of furniture. Then recycling as much as possible that is left They also donate pianos to schools and .accept pianos for rescue from the public. .
" PREPS" is a Programme for Recycled Educational Pianos in Schools" - a joint initiative of Hendry Pianos and Pianos Recycled. This applies the Street Piano idea into school's playgrounds. Following a successful trial at Dandenong West PS, we invite all schools to apply for a working and tuned piano to liven up kid's lunchtimes.
Get your school a piano for Free (you pay only for delivery and tuning). Simply email us "PREPS" and your contact details to pianosrecycled@gmail.com "
Cars
Yes you can donate your old car.
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Kids under cover accept donations of second-hand cars. They sell the cars at auction and will issue a receipt of the amount recovered as a tax deduction.
Handbrake turn ( Concern Australia) teach kids how to fix cars, and, cars are then passed on to people in need of second-hand cars or sold to raise funds. They will pick up the car (via tow truck). They will give you your plates so you can claim the residual registration.
You can also get your car serviced Dandenong
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