Local specialist recycling points

(during opening hours)

Spectacles: (no cases) for Vision Aid Overseas Contact lenses: with packaging and cases through Terracycle.	Cooper & Barr 35 High Street Stokesley TS9 5AD Tel: 01642 710832
Dental Care: plastic toothbrushes (including electric toothbrush heads), plastic toothpaste tubes and packaging plus floss containers through Terracycle.	Vitality Dental Practice 21 High Street Stokesley TS9 5AD Tel: 01642 712519
Writing instruments: plastic ball point pens, marker pens, highlighting pens, felt tip pens, tipex bottles. Items can be left in the recycling box in The Globe or left at Reception during opening hours at Egglescliffe School, Urlay Nook Road, Eaglescliffe, TS16 0LA	Recycling box at The Globe, Stokesley
Shoes/boots: in any state of repair through the charity Variety.	Crathorne Post Office (collection box outside)
Crisp packets – empty and not folded into triangles plus outer packages of multi-packs.	Discovery Centre, Great Ayton or The Globe Stokesley
Plastic bags: bread bags, bubble wrap, cereal bags, toilet roll wrappers etc. through Morrisons.	Morrisons in Guisborough Bread bags only at The Globe Stokesley
Aluminium foil: for Bread of Life primary health care clinic in Mozambique. for funds Ukranian refugees (also recyclable in blue topped bins)	Great Ayton Methodist Church Louise Coidan
Farm plastic, plant pots, shot gun cartridges etc for farmers, garden centres, shooting estates through Agricycle.
Used stamps for charity	Various places eg Grt Ayton Methodist Church & Jennifer Jayne, Hutton Rudby Hub, The Globe Stokesley, Louise Coidan (Teesside Hospice)
Batteries	Various places: Boyes, Boots, Hamble Recycling Centre, etc
Towels and bedding	RSPCA, Yarm Lane, Great Ayton Tel: 0300 123 0743
Mobile phones and printer ink cartridges (not Epson) through Variety.	Why not set up collection boxes at work, school or home? See the link for collection details.
Medicine Blister Packs through Terracycle	As of July 2023 Terracycle have stopped accepting blister packs, so we currently have no way of recycling!
Various Old mobiles, printer cartridges (not Epson), coins, stamps, phone cards, postcards (box at back of Church) in aid of Children in Distress.	Christ Church, Great Ayton,
Various Jewellery (gold, silver, costume, watches – damaged or snapped) old/new foreign & UK bank notes and coins; gadgets (sat navs, games consoles and games, tablets, cameras, video cameras, mobile phones, ipods and laptops)	Methodist Church, Great Ayton, for charity. Give to a church member or leave in the recycling box.