If your unwanted kitchen utensils, pots and pans are in good condition, save them and donate them to a charity shop, to a community centre or freecycle them. (However, please check a charity shop is willing to accept kitchen knives as they are subject to age-related restrictions.)
The safest way to dispose of kitchen knives is to take them to the scrap metal container at your local recycling centre. Put unwanted plastic cutlery in your general waste bin.
You can donate unwanted kitchen utensils at 18 recycling centres across Greater Manchester that help stock our three Renew shops and our online Renew Market selling pre-loved household items at affordable prices
The aim of the shops and online portal is to reduce waste, reuse unwanted items and increase recycling rates. Many of the items donated by residents would have otherwise gone to waste.
Here’s where you will find a Renew shop:
So far, residents have raised more than £1million for local good causes by donating their unwanted household items and buying second hand instead of new through the Renew project.
All the money raised by the shops will go to support local communities through two Greater Manchester initiatives. Each year money raised through sales made in the Renew shops will be donated as follows:
Donate these in the same way as metal utensils such as pots and pans. However, don’t put old Pyrex dishes with glass destined for recycling.
Pyrex is a type of treated glass that will not melt at the same temperature as glass bottles and jars during the recycling process. If mixed with container glass, it would make the resulting material unusable. Unfortunately, there are few recycling options at this time for non-container glass.
