How do you dispose of old frying/saucepans?

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I’ve got a few old pans that have seen better days. Charity shops don’t want them. Recycling won’t collect them.

Do I have to just put them in the general waste bin?

A trip to the tip?

Metal recycling at the tip

Or put on fb scrap metal dealers love them

Some supermarkets have a drop off bin for nonstick ones especially.

I’ve taken these and old oven trays to the metal recycling at the tip. Otherwise I guess it would need to go in the normal bin

I just gave some to our primary school as they have a mud kitchen in reception

If you have a local nursery, forest school or play group they may like them for a mud kitchen

I’m after some for a mud kitchen so you can send them to me!

Oooh, mud kitchen is a GREAT idea! Thank you!

Go to the tip and put them in with the metal. No way would I just bin them.

Here it would be leave them in ex's garden and they'd be collected by the scrap dealers.

Anyone know what I can do with old kitchen knives?! I don’t know where to get rid of them!

Our local police station has advertised on FB that they will let you hand in old knives to make sure they dont end up in the wrong hands.

Check if your local police currently have a knife drop point for surrendering any knife including kitchen knives.

Recycle!
Turn them into art!

Was wondering this as I have a couple that are very blunt/old - thanks!

Metal skip at the tip.

I've never seen this. Which supermarkets?

I use my old, redundant ones for melting wax from my bees to make furniture polish, leather dressing and lip salve from. Also for cooking up fishing bait over a camping stove which would, otherwise, stink out the kitchen. Realise that this is slightly niche though, but it does repurpose them.
My brother creates metal sculptures from old cutlery too.

As an aside, have a look at the 'Knife Angel' sculpture, currently in Gloucester, but soon going on tour round the country, created from knifes handed in to police during an amnesty, and a campaign to reduce knife crime

I live in London and leave them out near my garden gate. The scrap metal guys collect them. If they hadn't, after a few days, they'd go in our next tip run.

Put in the garden for a bird bath

I use mine in the garden as planters. You could do that.

Saucepans go to metal recycling at the tip.

I had some blunt kitchen knives that I took to the tip when I was clearing my Mum’s house. They said to put them in the metal skip too but checked that they went well down and weren’t sat on the top.

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I saw one if those large basket things at Sainsbury's the other week .. on the far side of the tills near where they have the food bank donations.

@Butteredtoast55

Thankyou.