Community Resources - in Ottawa

for Recycling your “Stuff”

Check the City of Ottawa website www.ottawa.ca,click on recycling and garbage, click on take it back program, to find places that will take your stuff for recycling.

Collection Calendar for Recycling & Garbage

Bicycles

Recycles Bicyle Co-Op sells second hand bikes, and takes donations of old bikes and usable parts. www.re-cycles.ca   

Cell Phones

Recycle Your Old Cell Phone at The Ottawa Food Bank
www.theottawafoodbank.ca 613-745-7001
We receive up to $4 for every used cell phone donated to this program. The phones are refurbished and resold worldwide. ‘Phones for Food’ keeps harmful chemicals from landfill sites and raises badly needed funds for food banks across Canada.
Phones can be left at all area grocery stores in The Food Bank's red donation cages.

Computers

Heartwood House     
613-241-5937
153 Chapel St., Ottawa ON (corner of Rideau and Chapel Streets)
www.heartwoodhouse.ca

Towers, Desktops, Modems, CD/DVD Roms, Keyboards, Printers, Hard Drives,
Laptops, Cables, Speakers, Mice, LCD & CRT Monitors Please note that a recycling
fee of $20 will apply to CRT (traditional style) computer monitors.
ASK US ABOUT IN-KIND DONATION TAX RECEIPTS!

The Anti Poverty Program (TAPP) are glad to receive your used computers (must be no older than - Pentium III processor )
In the Bronson Centre 211 Bronson Ave. Suite 312
613-248-9427
www.tapp.org

Charities      

Good Day Workshop – refinishes your wooden furniture and also accepts
donations of repairable wooden furniture for refinishing and resale..             
www.gooddayworkshop.org  613-236-4979

Ottawa GIVES - looking for gently used clothing and household items - We donate them to the Shelters for Women & Children of Violence, as well as the Men's Missions. www.ottawagives.com