Clothes and battery recycling banks

• Clothes recycling banks
• Household battery recycling

Clothes recycling banks

Clothes (textile) banks will recycle all clothing and textiles in any condition.

You can also drop off good-quality shoes (resalable condition). Please tie the laces together to keep them in pairs.

The clothing will be collected by LMB (external link) and hand-sorted to separate the good quality clothing which is then reused. Poor quality textiles are shredded to make cloths.

Charity shops and collections

Most charity shops will be happy to take unwanted clothing that is in good condition. You may also get clothes recycling bags through your letterbox - from local businesses.

These businesses will collect bags of clothes from your doorstep and take them away for reuse.

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Household battery recycling

You can take your small household batteries to Haringey’s libraries where they will be recycled by European Recycling Platform, European Recycling Platform (external link). Just look out for the red boxes or ask at reception. 

All types of portable battery - disposable and rechargeable - can be recycled, including AAA and AA cells, sizes C and D, button batteries (eg watch or hearing aid batteries), mobile phone batteries, laptop batteries and power tool batteries. 

Please note - Lithium batteries are not accepted and examples of these are laptop batteries, rechargeable batteries, mobile phone batteries.

Why recycle?

Batteries are made from important resources and chemicals including lead, cadmium, zinc and mercury. Each battery put in the recycling box will be taken apart and many of the materials will be recovered to make new batteries or something else. 

Library recycling points 

• Wood Green Library
• Coombes Croft Library
• Highgate Library
• Hornsey Library
• Marcus Garvey Library
• Muswell Hill Library
• St Ann’s Library
• Stroud Green and Harringay Library

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