Residents can bring in unwanted items in good condition, or pick up items they need.
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Only items in good condition are accepted. Nothing broken and NO TRASH!
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Swap Shop
Keeping Useable Items Out of the Landfill
Location: City of Raleigh Yard Waste Center, 900 N. New Hope Road
Hours of operation: Monday - Saturday, 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cleaning out your garage or attic? Redecorating? Moving? Just have good useable items you no longer want or need? Raleigh Recycling offers residents another option to keep those useable items out of the landfill. It's called a Swap Shop.
The purpose of the Swap Shop is to encourage waste reduction through the practice of reuse. The goal is to divert good, useable items away from the waste stream and conserve valuable landfill space.
Here's how the Swap Shop works. Residents having items in working, useable condition donate them to the Swap Shop. Residents in need of items visit the Swap Shop looking for the items. If the items are available, they take them. "Swapping" extends both the life of the items and the life of the landfill.
Guidelines:
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The Swap Shop is open to residents (no businesses please) only.
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All visitors must check in with the Scale Operator onsite.
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Items must work.
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Place items neatly on the shelves.
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Place like items together.
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Furniture must be not be soiled, torn or broken in any way.
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The Swap Shop operates on a first come, first serve basis.
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You don't have to bring something to take something.
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All items are free.
The City of Raleigh does not own any of the items in the Swap Shop. Visitors to the Swap Shop recognize and accept all risk and responsibility for items taken.
Any and all items may be rejected at the sole discretion of City of Raleigh staff.
Examples of Acceptable Items:
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Appliances (small & working)
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Bakeware
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Baskets
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Bicycles
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CDs
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Cookware
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Electronic items (radios, stereos, TVs, CD/DVD players, phones) - Must work!
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Fans
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Furniture (clean and in good condition, no tears )
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Lawn & garden tools
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Mowers
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Pictures
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Tools
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Toys
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Videos
Unacceptable Items:
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Animals
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Any item broken or damaged in any way.
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Any liquid
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Appliances - Large - May be posted on the ReUse Exchange Board
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Batteries
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Books
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Box Springs
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Car parts
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Chemicals (take to Wake County Household Hazardous Waste [HHW] collections)
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Clothing (best donated to a local charity)
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Construction materials (consider Habitat for Humanity)
- Mattresses
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Paint (in quantities, consider Habitat for Humanity, else Wake County HHW)
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Tires
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Toiletries/cosmetics
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Weapons
Please don't bring items to the Swap Shop that you would no longer consider using yourself! Is it broken? Don't bring it! Is it soiled? Don't bring it! This facility is a REUSE center, not a disposal site. It can be a viable way to divert good items from the landfill if residents cooperate and follow the guidelines. If residents drop off broken, soiled items that should go to the landfill it will become too costly for the City to maintain and could be disbanded. Thanks for your support and cooperation!
Have items too large to bring to the Swap Shop? No way to transport the item? Simply leave a notice on the ReUse Exchange Board. Residents may also post notices for "wanted" items on the board.
If you have questions about the acceptability of an item, please call first. You may call Raleigh Recycling at 831-6890 or the Yard Waste Center at 250-2728.
The City of Raleigh does not own any of the items in the Swap Shop. Visitors to the Swap Shop recognize and accept all risk and responsibility for items taken.
*** The amount of trash North Carolinians throw away in just five and a half days would fill Dumpsters that reach as high as Mount Mitchell. That's 6,684 feet! ***
For More Information Contact:
Linda A. Leighton
Waste Reduction Specialist
Solid Waste Services Department
400 West Peace Street
Raleigh, NC 27603
919-831-6890
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