Furniture

Yes furniture waste can be reduced throughcan be reuse and recycling.

REUSE

  • The following local organisations will come and collect your unwanted furniture. Furniture needs to be cleaned and suitable for resale and have the correct fire labels where appropriate. Please phone them to discuss collection:
  • You can sell furniture at a car boot sale or use a number of online platforms including Gumtree, Friday-Ad, Facebook selling pages and other online platforms. 
  • You can also give it away for free through Freegle.

RECYCLED
Where?

  • Please take them to the Brighton Household Waste & Recycling site on Wilson Avenue or the Hove Household Waste & Recycling site on the Old Shoreham Road. See here for exact locations and opening times. For more details contact City Clean on 01273 292929.
  • If you don’t have transport, then please contact the council as they run a Bulky Waste Collections Service. They charge for this service, but discounts are available for people over 60 and those receiving certain benefit payments.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • 22 million small items of furniture are thrown out in the UK every year.
  • When surveyed about throwing furniture away people gave the following reasons; 
    • 23 per cent said it was the easiest thing to do.
    • another 23 per cent said they weren’t sure how to dispose of these items.
    • whilst 20 per cent said it was cheaper and easier to replace items rather than repair them.
  • International Repair Day is a joint initiative of the Open Repair Alliance, celebrated every year on the third Saturday of October.