You can use the fabric for making clothes and accessories, or as rags and dust sheets.
Duvets and quilts in good condition can be donated to a charity shop, animal rescue or homeless shelter. The Basingstoke Community Furniture Project is always looking for good quality household goods.
You can dispose of this at the Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Sell, or donate locally using Freegle and other online platforms.
You can take your hardcore to the Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Rubble will be accepted as a part of your household's DIY waste allowance. If your household allowance has been exceeded, you will be charged to dispose of rubble.
Rubble includes construction and demolition materials such as stone, rubble, clay, concrete, bricks, blocks, sand, tiles, paving slabs, and ceramic bathroom suites. There will be no charge for crockery or clay/terracotta flower pots.
Buy quality durable shoes that last longer.
Repair worn soles, heels or laces instead of replacing the shoes.
Good quality items can donated to your local charity shop or you can recycle at one of the textile bins in the borough. Please ensure they are in pairs.
You can reuse shredded paper as bedding for small animals or for transporting fragile items in the post or when moving house.
Alternatively, shredded paper can be composted in your home compost bin.
We cannot recycle shredded paper, you need to put it in your black/grey waste bin.
If in good condition sell or donate locally online using Freegle or donate to the Basingstoke Community Furniture Project, which offers a collection service.
If your sofa and/or settee is in poor condition then please take it to the Household Waste Recycling Centre for landfill.
If you have no transport,you could use our Bulky Waste Collections Service. We charge for this service, but discounts are available for people over 60 and those receiving certain benefit payments.
Sell, or donate locally using Freegle and other online platforms.
Soil should not be put in your garden waste bin. You can take your soil to the Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Soil will be accepted as a part of your household's DIY waste allowance. If your household allowance has been exceeded, you will be charged to dispose of soil.
Soil should be brought to the site bagged and filled so that the waste is contained and can be safely lifted. Sites have a dedicated container for soil and rubble - please ask site staff for assistance.
Many opticians have in-store collection points for glasses, which they send to charities for reuse.
Spectacles cannot be recycled in your green recycling bin. Place this in your black/grey waste bin.
Styrofoam can be reused for transporting fragile items in the post or when moving house.
Styrofoam cannot be recycled and should be disposed of in your black/grey waste bin.
If you have large quantities that will not fit in your black/grey waste bin, please take it to the Household Waste Recycling Centre.
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