Believe it or not, your old textiles, bras, mobile phones and printer cartridges can earn us some money!

The ‘Keep It Up’ campaign are working with our recycling partners, ‘Bag it Up’, and we will receive an agreed percentage of the sale of the recycled materials generated within the Huddersfield area. It really is as simple as that!

Here’s how you can help:

Textiles

Good quality items which can be reused are sold to second-hand clothing traders in the UK and worldwide. ‘End of life’ garments are recycled into industrial wipers and cloths, mattress filling, insulation and new fibres.

Take your clothing, shoes and textiles to any of our textile banks listed below:

• The Academy- Leeds Road Playing Fields, Huddersfield, HD2 1YY
• Asda- Longhill Road, Bradford Road, Huddersfield, HD2 2LQ
• Church Street Car Park- Church Street, Emley, Huddersfied, HD8 9RW
• The Duke Of Leeds- Holmfirth Road, New Mill, Huddersfield, HD9 7JT
• Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield, HD1 6PX
• Morrisons- Penistone Road, Waterloo, Huddersfield HD5 8QW
• Morrisons- Station Street, Meltham, Huddersfield, HD9 5QR
• Tesco- Viaduct Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1RW
• The Co- Operative- Westbourne Road, Waterloo, Huddersfield, HD1 4LG
• The Co- Operative- Market Street, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, HD9 7AX
• The Co- Operative- 18- 24 Huddersfield Road, Meltham, Holmfirth, HD9 4AE
• The Co- Operative- 1 Lewisham Road, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, HD7 5AL
• The Wellington PH- Newsome Road, Huddersfiled, HD4 6LR
• The Sand House Inn, Blackmoorfoot Road, Crosland Hill, Huddersfield, HD4 7AE
• Totties Garden Centre- Downshutts Lane, Totties, Holmfirth, HD9 1AU
• The Zone, St. Andrews Rd, Huddersfield, HD1 6PT
• Scissett WMC- Wakefield Road, Scissett, HD8 9HR
• Springfield Mill- Norman Road, Denby Dale, Huddersfield, HD8 8TH
• The Black Bull- 1 Marsh Lane, Shepley, Huddersfield, HD8 8AE
• Wakefield FC- College Grove, Eastmoor Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 3RR

Mobile Phones

Freepost envelopes are available from the YAA charity office or from our partners ‘Bag it Up’ – please call 0870 321 5505 to have one sent out to you.

If you are planning to collect more than 20 mobile phones, call 0870 321 5505 and ‘Bag it Up’ can arrange to have a mobile phone bin delivered to you.

Please do not put your charger in the envelope as it will make it too heavy to get to ‘Bag it Up’.

Bras

Our recycled bras are sent out to West Africa where the demand for quality used bras is much greater. However we need a minimum of 200,000 bras before we can send our first batch! So far we have collected over 129,000 bras, but need help to push us to our target.

Collecting 200,000 will guarantee an income to the charity of at least £10,000.

If you are a business or organisation who have collected lots of bras, please call 0870 321 5505 to arrange a collection.

Cartridges

The ‘Keep It Up’ campaign are also collecting your old used ink cartridges which in turn are used to provide both the public and businesses with recycled printer cartridges. This also helps reduce the waste produced from the ink cartridges used and not recycled, as well as generating life saving funds for us.

Recycling Ink cartridges couldn’t be easier!

Send your ink cartridges by FREEPOST to:

So there are loads of ways you can help the “Keep it up” campaign as well as the environment, so what are you waiting for get recycling now!