Getting rid of a very large kitchen knife..

[CurlewKate]

I’m streamlining our kitchen, and we have a very large butcher’s knife that dp had when he went on a course probably 15 years ago. It’s been living at the very back of a drawer untouched since then. I’d like to get rid of it-but how?? I once had to get rid of a replica gun, and I forced our very reluctant local police station (in the days we had such things) to take it from me…but we don’t have a police station any more. Any ideas?

Local recycling centre or sometimes they have knife deposits outside police stations

Look at your cpuncil website, it will likely tell you where to taje it. For us its the Recycling centre (aka The Tip)

We’ve got a knife bin at the top of the road. That’s south London for you!

I was advised by the people at the tip to wrap it in several layers of corrugated cardboard and tape it firmly, then hand it to them to deal with when I next visited the tip. It was about 10 years ago, though, so things might have changed! And equally could have been a local solution they came up with.

Can you ask questions of the waste service at your local authority? We can email ours with odd queries and they are responsive.

Thank you! I hadn’t thought of there being official channels, so to speak, but of course there would be.

We have a knife amnesty bin outside our local police station.

Just wrap it in a box or something and bin it.

I went on the council website and it said to take it to the tip. It just went in the skip for metals.

Where told to wrap them and put in wheelie bin but it might be area dependant

Yep wrap blade in cardboard and put in wheely bin is local guidance here

Knife deposit box outside a local supermarket.