All items · Hazardous materials
Gas bottles, cylinders and camping gas
Also covers: calor gas, propane, butane, camping stove gas, co2 cylinder
They say no
Refused by all 7 charities that directly name or broadly cover it (7 direct).
Why shops refuse it
Pressurised cylinders are hazardous and usually remain the supplier's property.
What to do instead
Return them to the supplier (Calor and others take their own bottles back) or ask the council about cylinder amnesties.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
British Heart Foundation
Their wording
“Gas bottles or cylinders”
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Can't accept
Cancer Research UK
Their wording
“Gas appliances, cylinders, oil-filled radiators”
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Can't accept
Emmaus
Their wording
“Flammables, gas cylinders, paints and gas appliances”
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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
LOROS Hospice
Their wording
“Gas cylinders”
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Can't accept
Overgate Hospice
Their wording
“No bottled gas”
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Can't accept
Shaw Trust
Their wording
“gas cylinders”
Not mentioned in 37 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 Cornwall Hospice Care
- Not mentioned Crisis
- Not mentioned DEBRA
- Not mentioned Dogs Trust
- Not mentioned Dorothy House
- Not mentioned Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
- Not mentioned Keech Hospice Care
- Not mentioned Marie Curie
- Not mentioned Octavia Foundation
- Not mentioned Oxfam
- Not mentioned PDSA
- Not mentioned Phyllis Tuckwell
- Not mentioned Princess Alice Hospice
- Not mentioned Salvation Army (SATCoL)
- Not mentioned Samaritans
- Not mentioned Save the Children
- Not mentioned Scope
- Not mentioned Sense Scotland
- Not mentioned Shelter
- Not mentioned St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
- Not mentioned St Christopher's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Giles Hospice
- Not mentioned St Peter's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
- Not mentioned Sue Ryder
- Not mentioned The Children's Trust
- 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)