All items · Hazardous materials
Fire extinguishers and smoke alarms
Also covers: extinguisher, smoke detector, co alarm
They say no
Refused by all 12 charities that directly name or broadly cover it (12 direct).
Why shops refuse it
Pressurised, dated safety equipment can't be resold.
What to do instead
Council recycling centres take extinguishers; smoke alarms go in small-electricals recycling.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
British Heart Foundation
Their wording
“Firefighting equipment”
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Can't accept
Cancer Research UK
Not accepted even when new.
Their wording
“Firefighting equipment, extinguishers, smoke detectors (used or new)”
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Can't accept
Cornwall Hospice Care
Their wording
“Firefighting equipment”
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Can't accept
FARA Charity Shops
Their wording
“FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, GAS CANISTERS, PAINT POTS”
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Can't accept
Overgate Hospice
Their wording
“Fire fighting equipment”
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Can't accept
Princess Alice Hospice
Their wording
“Fire-fighting equipment”
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Can't accept
Salvation Army (SATCoL)
Their wording
“firefighting equipment”
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Can't accept
Shaw Trust
Their wording
“fire extinguishers”
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Can't accept
St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
Their wording
“Fire fighting equipment”
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Can't accept
St Giles Hospice
Their wording
“Firefighting equipment”
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Can't accept
St Peter's Hospice
Their wording
“Fire fighting equipment”
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Can't accept
The Children's Trust
Their wording
“Firefighting equipment.”
Not mentioned in 32 charities' guidance
Absence from a charity's list doesn't mean they accept it — it just isn't singled out. Ask your local shop.
- Not mentioned Acorns Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Age UK
- Not mentioned Barnardo's
- Not mentioned British Red Cross
- Not mentioned Claire House Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Crisis
- Not mentioned DEBRA
- Not mentioned Dogs Trust
- Not mentioned Dorothy House
- Not mentioned Emmaus
- Not mentioned Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
- Not mentioned Keech Hospice Care
- Not mentioned LOROS Hospice
- Not mentioned Marie Curie
- Not mentioned Octavia Foundation
- Not mentioned Oxfam
- Not mentioned PDSA
- Not mentioned Phyllis Tuckwell
- Not mentioned Samaritans
- Not mentioned Save the Children
- Not mentioned Scope
- Not mentioned Sense Scotland
- Not mentioned Shelter
- Not mentioned St Christopher's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
- Not mentioned Sue Ryder
- Not mentioned Traid
- Not mentioned Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
- Not mentioned Wales Air Ambulance
- Not mentioned Willen Hospice
- Not mentioned Woodgreen Pets Charity
- Not mentioned YMCA (England & Wales)