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Can be recycled using the paper banks at your local Household Waste Recycling Centre or Recycle Point or using your kerbside recycling scheme if one is available.

Textiles
Items such as clothes, curtains and bed linen can be placed in clothing banks at your local Household Waste Recycling Centre or Recycle Point or taken to charity shops.

Tissue
Handkerchiefs can be used, washed and reused endlessly in place of tissues. Tissues should be composted or disposed of in the household bin.

Tights
By cutting up your old tights you can use them to attach your plants to stakes in the garden.

Tools
Tools for Self Reliance (external link) collect and refurbish hand tools (except gardening tools), for free shipment to under-developed countries. You can deliver the tools or they can be collected if necessary.

Towels
Towels are often unnecessarily disposed of in landfill when they can be taken to textile recycling banks and companies to either be used again or be recycled into industrial rags.

Toys & games
Local hospitals are always happy to receive toys and games in good condition. Most charity shops will also accept them.

Tyres
Over 38 million tyres are discarded in the UK each year and can sometimes occur as fly tipping on garage forecourts, industrial estates or car parks.
As garages are responsible for disposal and recycling of waste they create you should get your tyres changed at garages rather than replace your own. Look out for garages that send tyres for recycling, see local directory.