To take my old kitchen knives to the cops?

[TheQueef]

Cleared out the draw of failed utensils and have now 14 knives all sharp, various sizes.
I checked Google and as far as I can find you wrap the blade in cardboard etc and throw it in general waste, ours goes to landfill.
I don't like the idea of that at all firstly they could accidentally hurt someone, second they could be discovered by kids, thirdly resurface in ten years with my DNA all over them looking like a knife fetishist.
So.
I want to take them to the police station, put them in the amnesty bucket or summat.

My Ddad and DS think I'm being melodramatic and over thinking it. Plus there isn't a knife amnesty so won't be a bucket

AIBU and getting carried away?

. I tried a charity shop but they didn't want them.perhsps try a different shop because some do.

We don't have wheelie bins in my area, just black plastic bags for non-recyclables, so the 45cm carving knives and the cleaver-type knife currently awaiting disposal would need to be very carefully wrapped.

I did similar. we cleaned out our kitchen drawers a month or so and had about 10-15 kitchen knives to dispose of. I wrapped them in clingfilm and took them to the police station and dumped them in the amnesty bin. The woman behind the counter said lots of people did it.

Giggle knife bins. There are about 25 in London and others fitted around the country.

My

The nearest one to me is in an Asda car park.

Not a daft question! I upgraded our main knife set and have the knives stored as have had no idea what to do with them.

Local freecycle and buy nothing groups do not allow me to advertise them free.

I will send them down to the local recycling tip with dh.

I will send them down to the local recycling tip with dh
Now I will be distracted for hours while I imagine all the best ways to recycle my husband!

If the knives are sharp and still in good nick, why not keep them? If you don't want to keep so many you can give to a charity shop. I've bought some very good utensils, including knives, from a charity shop in the past.

Thats what we did with ours. Cops happy to take them. It is the advice locally here in Wiltshire

Maybe I'm paranoid but I'd be very sceptical of what the once in a blue moon scrap metal man (or any old iron man as he shouts when he comes!) would do with the knives, mainly because he's had a short paragraph about his on-off mail bag stitching career in the local paper.

I have a similar dilemma. Cleared my Mum’s house and found she had the National Collection of wooden cheeseboards with accompanying knives. Planning to visit my local charity shops and see whether they can take both boards and knives or just the former. Also have a flower vase full of old kitchen knives, some are proving very useful and very sharp.

I used to take knives I didn't want into work and some I brought into the church kitchen. This was years ago. I now only buy knives that come with a sheath so no chance of cutting myself when rummaging in drawer. DH once brought home a boning knife which was horrendously sharp. Think he had some notion of boning a chicken. Hated the very thought of it in the house. Actually not sure what happened to it but we gave moved house and lots of stuff went to the charity shop. Not sure if they would have accepted it but it is definitely not in our knife drawer. I have occasionally thought about the knife amnesty scenario for getting rid of knifes. Maybe if shops who sold knives had boxes you could dispose of old knives like they have to have for used batteries. I recently put a pair of scissors into the bin for landfill but wrapped them in heavy duty tape first.

Bury them in your garden?

You can dispose of your knives safely in the Cracks of Doom. They’re in Mordor though which isn’t that easy to get to.

Ours go into recycling, though ours is a wheelie bin so no risk to refuse collectors as they don't handle the waste.

Google suggests putting them in an old plastic drink bottle and wrapping, then putting in the bin. Or doing the same procedure and take to the tip.

Wouldn't the metal section of the tip be a brilliant way to get rid of a murder weapon?!

This was a good question. Clearing my mums house I have now inherited knives I don’t have need for. I should have put them with the house clearance vans I had but didn’t think. I too would worry about just chucking them if that wasn’t recommended.
Milk carton and taped up a good idea.

I took our old kitchen knives to the local police station and they were more than happy to take them.

I wasn't happy just putting them in the bin. No matter how carefully wrapped.

These are perfectly good, serviceable knives and you are all binning them
no wonder the planet is ferked

and as for taking them to the police
FFS, talk about sucking up resources on trivialities

REUSE them
not bin them

Put them on a local freecycle as and then someone who needs them can use them. Madness to chuck things that are perfectly good.

Just take them to the local civic amentiy centre and put them in scrap metal.

I’d personally be a bit wary of giving knives away on Freecycle, no telling who would get their hands on them and what they could be used for.

If they are not usable, I'd put them in the metal bin at the local tip.

That's where the people who work at our tip ask us to put things with any metal in.

I'd just offer them for free on a local freebie site or freecycle

I think this is a very bad idea. Unless you are planning to check age ID whoever turns up.

no telling who would get their hands on them and what they could be used for.
Cooking probably