Tin foil for charity??

[morebookbargains]

Does any animal charity that you know of collect tin foil?- i have some from the bottom of pies, quiches etc which i don't want to waste.

[cornishmaid1961]

Guide dogs for the blind used to do it but not any more they collect old mobile phones and ink jet cartridges instead now. I can't think of any off hand but you can put it in your recycling box if you have kerbside collections.

[astral276]

Does any animal charity that you know of collect tin foil?- i have some from the bottom of pies, quiches etc which i don't want to waste.

I don't know of anyone that does nowadays. There is just not the money in it to justify the collection. Just as you no longer get those little envelopes through the door asking for donations. Now they want a regular donation of x pounds per month sent to them rather than your loose change collected.

[madelaine]

Near us there are recycling bins for foil which are for a local hydrotherapy pool, but I haven't come across an animal charity collecting foil for a while (when I was at school.. in the last century when we still had free milk.. it used to be for the PDSA)

[e_nviable]

Guide dogs for the blind used to do it but not any more they collect old mobile phones and ink jet cartridges instead now. I can't think of any off hand but you can put it in your recycling box if you have kerbside collections.

Crazy, I know, but our local authority specifically requests that we do not put foil into the 'green' bin (along with a lengthy list of other items) :confused:.

Apparently they're not equipped to deal with at the recycling centre :rolleyes:

[phanmale]

our council recycles everything - we have a brown bin for food scraps, grass and tree cuttings etc for compost (which they sell back to you!), a burgundy box for plastic and metal (incl tin foil), a black box (oi! norty!) for glass and a green box for paper and cardboard.
Then they gave us all a new small green wheelie dustbin and fine you and wont collect your rubbish if your lid isnt shut. Best of all, they changed collections of recycle boxes to weekly and normal refuse to fortnightly. Im all for recycling, but it wasnt very pleasant in the summer when ppl blatently didnt recycle and the bins werent being emptied :(

Morebookbargains, I did a search for tin foil for charities, and almost every link encourages recycling.......

[madelaine]

cooking foil is a different alloy from ring pull cans which is why they don't want them in the same bin.

[phanmale]

cooking foil is a different alloy from ring pull cans which is why they don't want them in the same bin.

weve been told to put all ours in - pie dishes, used foil etc and cans. Deodorant cans as well :confused:

[morebookbargains]

Oh well - thank you anyway! Perhaps i'll just make some pies and pop them in the freezer:)

[madelaine]

weve been told to put all ours in - pie dishes, used foil etc and cans. Deodorant cans as well :confused:

It all depends on the requirements of the reprocessors. Deodorant cans are steel and can be sorted out, along with tin cans using a magnet. The market for Ferrous scrap is highly developed.