CHARITABLE
RECYCLING STATION
Our Recycling Station is a drop off point for your hard to recycle items. We're diverting waste away from the incinerator and raising money for charity
Recycling for charity
The collected waste from many of the streams is packed up by volunteers and sent off to be broken down into plastic pellets and made into things like playground equipment, in return the charity of choice receives a donation.
recycling station in bexley wasteless market
How it works
- Bring your empty, sorted and flattened recyclable items to one of our pop up stations
- Place each type of packaging in the relevant bag or box
- Our volunteers will help you if you are not sure which bag it goes in
- We box up the waste into large batches which are sent for recycling
- Our nominated charities receive a donation of £1-2 for every kg of waste collected
- As of June 2025 we have together raised over £580 for charity – that’s over 500 kg of packaging diverted from incineration!
Our charities
What can be recycled?
We accept the following types of packaging for recycling. Items must be empty, shaken out and flattened. Milk bottle tops, cheese wrappers and storage boxes need to be washed. All waste must be completely dry and separated. Please note that only the items listed can be accepted. Most other soft plastics can be recycled with supermarket carrier bags.
Kent Air Ambulance
The following packaging items raise £1-£2 per kilo for Kent Air Ambulance.
Any brand of plastic wrappers from biscuits, cakes and crackers, including mini cheddars. NO frostie, rice krispie bars or large rice cake wrappers please. Please place individual biscuit wrappers inside another packet to minimise handling.
Cheese wrappers, cleaned.
Scheme ending soon: All brands of flexible dishwasher and laundry tablet packets, household wipes (no baby wipe packets). Cleaning spray heads. Lenor tumble drier sheets. NB dishwasher salt and household refill pouches are no longer accepted. This scheme ends in July 2025. Our last collection opportunity is at Geddes Place URC, Bexleyheath on Saturday 5 July from 11 am - 3 pm.
Bread bags (any bread product). Plastic only - NO waxed paper.
Pringles tubes - only the ones with metal ends, not the cardboard variety. NO plastic lids - squashed flat, NO other brands.
Ferrero Rocher transparent plastic box & outer plastic wrappers, gold plastic tray and ice cream plastic packaging;
Kinder flexible & rigid plastic packaging and chocolate wrappers;
Nutella biscuits flexible plastic pouches.
NO other brands of chocolate or ice cream wrappers.
All brands: Individual coffee bag sachets; bulk bags of tea bags; loose leaf tea packs. NOT ground coffee or coffee bean pouches
Pathfinder Dogs
The following items raise money for Pathfinder Dogs.
Plastic milk bottle tops - washed and dried please (no other lids).
Used postage stamps (please leave approx. 1 cm border)
Against breast cancer
The following items raise money for Against breast cancer.
Bras, any condition
Mind in Bexley
The following items raise money for Mind in Bexley.
Printer cartridges. Inkjet only - no laser cartridges. Please remove all outer packaging.
Empty medicinal blister packets and calpol syringes.
PLEASE ENSURE NO TABLETS REMAIN. Please remove wrappings and small bags when depositing these as we cannot recycle these.
Since 2020 we have been buying pre-paid boxes to recycle these. From February 2025 Boots in Bexleyheath and Crayford accept these for recycling. We will continue to accept them only until our current stock of prepaid boxes are full up, then we will stop. Please check this site for up to date information before bringing these to our events.