Children today tend to accumulate a lot of toys over the years but ultimately they are grown out of and discarded. It is estimated that 13 million toys end up in landfill sites each year so why not recycle toys? There are a number of opportunities to recycle toys and it is something you can also involve your children in.
Whilst toys broken beyond repair are difficult to recycle, many toys are still almost as good as new when our children have finished with them. So if you want to recycle toys why not, in the first instance, get your children involved by asking them to sort their toys and put to one side those they no longer like or have grown out of? You can then decide how to recycle the toys.
If you are happy to give them away you could recycle toys by passing them onto a charity shop, children’s hospital or hospice, or to a jumble sale. Alternatively you could donate them to a local playgroup or toy library, just check what kind of toys they require. For information on toy libraries visit the National Association of Toy and Leisure Libraries website.
If you, or your children, would like to make some money out of the old toys, you could sell them on, particularly in the case or larger or more specialist toys. This is a great way to recycle toys because the buyer is getting a bargain, provided that the toys are in reasonable condition, and you make some money in the process. You could sell the toys at a car boot sale on Ebay or through the local paper.
However you decide to recycle toys, do make sure that they are in a safe and usable condition before you pass them on.
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