Recycling your unwanted items is an easy and great way to raise funds for WWF. You can do most of these from the comfort of your own home and it saves items going into landfill or our oceans!
Donate your clothes
Thrift+ makes it easy to recirculate and shop for second-hand clothes to help lower fashions footprint. Thrifting reduces demand for brand new clothes, and helps protect our planets precious resources.
It’s simple to get started: order a Thrift bag, fill it up with clothing and return the bag. Thrift+ hand-check all items for quality, then list them on Thrift+ and other marketplaces to resell. Items that don’t pass Thrift+ quality controls are donated to charity or responsibly recycled.
Every time an item sells for more than £7.5, you earn Thrift+ credits that can be donated to WWF from your Thrift+ account. The easiest in to setup an auto-donation to WWF in a few clicks from your Thrfit+ account.
Want to get your team involved at work? Either encourage them to order individual Thrift+ Bags from the Thrift+ website, or contact hello@thrift.plus for a bulk delivery of bags to your office.
Donate your car
Did you know you can get rid of your car for free and raise money for WWF? Giveacar is a not-for-profit social enterprise that turns your old cars, light vans, motorbikes and even caravans into cash. They arrange free collection, and then depending on your car’s condition sell it at auction or scrap it, with the proceeds raised (minus the service fees) going directly to WWF. It’s as easy as that! Find out more information here or call Giveacar on 0207 736 4242.
Charity Car takes the hassle out of getting rid of your car and passes the value to WWF. Donating your car really is easy - you can arrange everything online and Charity Car will come and collect your car. You can donate any car. If your car is ready to scrap, it’ll be recycled, or repaired and re-used, and the charity will receive 100% of the car's scrap value. Or, if there's enough life left in your car, it’ll be auctioned to raise more money. Find out how to donate your car to WWF with Charity Car.
Donate your household items
Recycling for Good Causes are a great option for recycling your household bits and bobs. They take a wide variety of items, including:
Jewellery & watches: in any material even if damaged or broken
Currency: any coins or banknotes, UK & foreign, including if it’s out of circulation currency
Mobile phones & gadgets: Sat-Navs, Ipods, MP3 players, games consoles, games & accessories
Cameras: old film, digital and video
Stamps: loose, single, albums, first day covers, presentation packs, collections
It’s so simple to do. Request your free sack to put your items in. Collect between 10-30kg of stuff and fill in the form or call Recycling for Good Causes (0800 633 5323) to arrange a free collection, at a time convenient for you. Remember to include that you’d like WWF to be your charity of choice, on your returns form.
Donate your books
WeBuyBooks is the simple, hassle-free way to make money recycling your unwanted books, CDs, DVDs and video games. Their vision is to encourage ‘responsible reading.’ It takes one whole tree to make around 50 books; buying and selling used books lessens our carbon footprint and reduces the demand for paper.
It’s super simple to get started: Just download the WeBuyBooks app, scan or enter the book barcode, get an instant valuation and then pack and post the book for free. You can then select WWF-UK to be your charity of choice and donate 100% of your earnings.
WeBuyBooks buy and sell 1.8 million books each year which saves around 30,000 trees. That’s a small forest! They also recycle 25,000 tonnes of books each year which would otherwise go to landfill.
Donate your coins
Coinstar has over 2,000 coin counting machines across the UK that can help you clear your stash of loose change and turn it into a donation to WWF!
All you need to do to donate your change is:
- Find your nearest Coinstar machine
- Insert your coins into the machine
- Select WWF as your chosen charity on the machine
It’s as simple as that. Coinstar sends your donation straight to WWF and there’s nothing more you need to do.
Please note Coinstar charges a processing fee of around 9% (varies by location, exact fee is stated on each machine).
