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 February 2024 we have together raised over £ 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. Only milk bottle tops 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.
All brands of flexible dishwasher and laundry tablet packets, household wipes (no baby wipe packets). Lenor tumble drier sheets. NB dishwasher salt and household refill pouches are not accepted after July 2024.
Cheese wrappers, cleaned.
Broken food storage boxes and plastic reusable drinks bottles - any brand.
Bread bags (any bread product). Plastic only - no waxed paper.
Pringles tubes (no lids) - squashed flat, no other brands.
Pathfinder Dogs
The following items raise money for Pathfinder Dogs.
Plastic milk bottle tops (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, plastic pill bottles, plastic vitamin bottles and calpol syringes.
Blister packs are tricky to recycle because they are made of aluminium and plastic strongly glued together. Very specialised equipment is needed to do this and there are a handful of companies, such as Terracycle and Refactory, who have access to this. We have experienced a high demand for this type of recycling so have paid for more than 10 postage paid collection boxes since 2020 from Refactory to enable us to offer the service. We now invite our supporters to make a donation towards our next box to enable us to continue recycling blister packs. Please go to our Localgiving page at https://localgiving.org/charity/Wastelessmarket/ if you would like to support this. Thank you for helping us keep plastic waste out of the incinerator.