Is there any way to recycle child car seats?

[wassername]

I hate the thought that I'm going to have to take our Britax stage 2 car seat to the dump. It seems a waste of a good car seat and it will also add to landfill. Is there no other way?

I can't understand why manufacturers aren't under some pressure to tackle this. I mean we are all legally bound to use car seats with our children (quite rightly imo) but we're not supposed to pass them on or sell them - so if there is no recycling scheme there will be hundreds of thousands of discarded seats every year...

You can pass it on to family or friends - that's what we do generally.

Anyone who trusts you when you say it's not been in an accident basically!!

I know a lot of dumps actually soprt through it and recycle the salvagable stuff. MAybe they reduce the m down to their seperate materials and recycle them? I don't know this but it's a possibility.

I dont have anyone who would ever need mine. But it does seem such a waste. Especially all the baby carriers. We used ours however long then DS outgrew it & we gave it away on freecycle, with a promise it had a clean history. But I felt weird about it.

I sold on my cover from my rock a tot.

Why feel weird Here?
It is patently ridiculous and immoral to throw away something perfectly useful.

I felt weird simply because I would not have taken a car seat for my newborn son from a stranger of freecycle. So it was a little like saying "this may be good enough for you but it isnt for me" which of course wasnt my intention. I was happy to give it away. But I was also aware that when I was pregnant with DS no stranger I had only ever seen in print on the internet could have given me something his life might possibly depend on, with no other assurances.

Still I am happy they were able to make use of it as it did seem a total waste of material and money to chuck it.

I just wanted to say, that i recently started petition -www.change.org/p/keep-out-of-landfill-make-a-baby-and-child-car-seat-recycling-programme-for-the-whole-of-the-uk

It has been featured on BBC news www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50273625

All car seats one day expire, whether they have been in an accident, grow mould in storage (some parents have reported) or generally stand the test of time. I get messages from several parents saying they struggle to give them away. I'm hopeful this petition will mean one day the answer won't be to drive them to the tip so they can end up in landfill.