Specific items

These pages give information on specific items that may or may not be offered or requested on your community.

• Alcohol and tobacco
• Archery Equipment
• Asbestos
• Batteries
• Beach sand, stones, driftwood, seashells etc
• Bike helmets - see Safety of items offered
• Books
• Bread Baskets
• Car seats - see Safety of items offered
• Contact Lenses and solutions
• Cooking Oil
• Condoms
• Copyright Issues - software, DVDs, videos
• Cots - see Safety of items offered
• Counterfeit, Fake or Imitation items
• Creosote
• Disability Aids
• Explosive precursors - see Worry Words
• Fire Extinguishers
• Fireworks
• Food
• Fridges and Freezers
• Frogspawn
• Fur
• Furniture - see Safety of items offered
• Garden chemicals: pesticides, insecticides, weedkiller
• Gas cookers
• Gas cylinders or bottles
• Guns and replicas, including air rifles
• Hearing aids, Glasses
• Knives and Swords
• Light Bulbs
• Medicines and supplements
• Oil - waste and other oils
• Oyster cards
• Pets and animals
• Plants
• Red Diesel
• Safety of items offered - car seats, cot mattresses, bike helmets, furniture: what are the risks?
• Scanners - radio scanners etc
• Scrap Metal
• Sex toys
• Sky and Virgin boxes
• Slug Pellets
• Storage Heaters
• Talcum powder - see this September 2025 Discourse discussion
• Tasers and stun guns
• Thermometers
• Tickets and Vouchers
• Timeshare
• Tortoises
• Traps - legality of mouse and other wildlife traps
• Tumble dryers
• Waste - the legal definition of what counts as waste
• Wood - including pallet warnings

See also Recycling Organisations, a list of organisations that reuse computers, medical and office equipment, sewing machines, tools and more.

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