How can I dispose of these items?

[FoxandFeathers]

Moving house and clearing through things. Have a pile of items and I feel bad just putting them into landfill. What else can I do with them?

Variety of old, leaky water bottles. Some plastic, some metal.
2 old kindles, one fire one not. Battery life terrible on both.
An old violin with no strings.
5 ancient, cheap type mobile phones.
Chargers for items we don’t have any more.
Lots of mismatching mugs.
Several half used, old bottles of body lotion, shower gel etc.

Perhaps I’m hoping too much and should shove the lot in a bin bag?! I love recycling and repurposing items but these have me stumped. Any suggestions?

Do you have any groups like freecycle or buy nothing local to you?

Where I live we can post these sorts of items and pass them along. The groups are usually local.

Well everything sounds like it’s only fit for the bin.

My local tip has separate bins for all of this stuff small electricals, hard plastics, ceramics, etc, and most of it gets recycled.

Some charities accept chargers and old phones via post (or did).
Do you have somewhere which has a box for recycling small electrical items? A local Facebook might be the place to ask.

Electronics can be recycled... You may even get some money for them. There are various websites.

Old violin... Freecycle?

Rinse the toiletries down the drain and recycle the bottles
Water bottles in the recycling bin
Kindles, phones, chargers in the WEEE bin at the tip
Box of mugs on FB marketplace free to first taker

Variety of old, leaky water bottles. Some plastic, some metal.
I would try these in the recycling

2 old kindles, one fire one not. Battery life terrible on both.
Electrical recycling, usually at the tip

An old violin with no strings.
Trash Nothing app

5 ancient, cheap type mobile phones.
Electrical recycling

Chargers for items we don’t have any more.
Electrical recycling

Lots of mismatching mugs.
Charity shop (when reopen) or Trash Nothing. Or actually I would bin these if couldn’t find another way

Several half used, old bottles of body lotion, shower gel etc.
Rinse down sink, and into recycling.

Can the old toiletries not be used instead and then the bottles recycled?
All the old tech should be donated for refurbishment or recycled.
Someone will want the violin and chargers - eBay or Freecycle.
A charity might use the mugs eg homeless shelter.
Local council recycling should be able to tell you if the water bottles can be recycled.

Failing that, apart from the leaky water bottles, leave it all outside with a 'free to good home' sign when the weather is dry.

Toiletries: use up and then recycle the bottles.

Electrical stuff: I'd have thought most of it could be recycled at council tips (ours would take it all).

Metal water bottles: recycle at council tip.

Mugs: charity shop.

Violin: depends on quality and condition. Donate to local school? Putting strings on is easy enough and might make it worth playing. If it's in bad condition it might not be worth the bother, depending on its quality. Their art department might like it if their music department doesn't.

Put them all on a local FB page as “free for collection”. You’d be surprised what goes.

Thanks all, I feel I’ve had a drive to act following all your suggestions. When you’re tired, you sometimes overthink an old water bottle....

It’s so true Fox sometimes you just need someone to give you an idea or a push

Our dump/tip was rebranded as a recycling centre years ago and although there is a skip for general /household waste there's loads of different containers for things like wood, metal, electrical items etc where they can recycle things like you've described- not in working order but potentially recyclable!