Hand and garden tools: donate or recycle them

Hand and garden tools in good working order can go to some charity shops, reuse groups or community projects, says Recycle Now.

• UK

Key facts

• Workaid and The Conservation Foundation repair donated tools, whatever their condition, for use in the UK and overseas.
• Tools contain a lot of metal. Ask your tip whether it takes tools that no longer work.
• Power tools are electrical waste, so they go to an electrical drop-off.

Last updated: 15 October 2026

Based on Recycle Now's own pages.

Accepted items

• Hand tools
• Garden tools

Related item guides

• Hand and garden tools

Other kinds of place

• Clothes donation bins and clothes banks near you
• Electrical recycling near you for old electricals
• Reuse shops and furniture reuse centres near you
• Charity shops and donation points near you

Schemes and collection services

• Recycle Now locator
• Recycle Now: bicycles
• Recycle Now: DVDs and CDs
• Recycle Now: furniture