Introduction

Planning to buy a new sofa? Get rid of your old sofa first. Find out the top ways of sofa disposal in an efficient, responsible, and eco-friendly manner with this blog.

• Donating or Selling Off Your Sofa

Instead of sofa disposal, you may consider a reuse option for your old sofa. If your old sofa is in good working condition, consider selling it off or donating it to someone. Remember, your sofa must be in a proper and clean condition with decent springs and without any kind of stains for this purpose.

The estimate of some research surveys in the UK suggests that around 1 million unwanted sofas are reused on an annual basis. This score comprises nearly 17% of the overall disposed of sofas that have outlived their purpose completely. While reusing old sofas through donating or selling can help someone else who actually needs it, selling options help you gain some extra cash as well from your old and unwanted sofa.;

As donation comes for free, you can look for charitable trusts or non-profit organisations. In this way, your unwanted sofa can be used for a noble cause and help the people in need. On the other hand, you can also donate old sofas to local recycling centres for an eco-friendly sofa disposal. Remember that recycling requires your sofa to have an intact fire safety label.

Another way is the selling option, either through online or offline methods. Offline selling of your old sofa to some friend or acquainted person can cut down the efforts and charges of the transportation and shipping of the sofa to far destinations. However, offline selling reduces your range of customers to a certain limit.

On the other hand, online selling gives you abundant customer options across a broad geographical area. You can get a favourable process for your second-hand sofa by this method. However, this comes with the concern of shipping the bulky old sofa to the desired location of the customer. In this way, you may also get quotes from several waste removal companies for buying your old sofa.

• Taking Old Sofa to the Local Tip

Certain local civic amenity sites and recycling centres also accept old and waste sofas. You may contact your local council to get access to their addresses, opening hours, and other contact details. Sofa disposal to these local tips is, however, not that easy. Carrying such old bulky sofas to local tips requires big vehicles.

Getting a bulky sofa out of our house is already a challenging task. Moreover, your old sofa may not fit well in your car. You may have to cut the arms and the body of your sofa into small pieces to properly accommodate them in your car. If you are sure about not requiring the sofa again and it is no longer in a good condition for reuse, break it into smaller pieces for carrying it to the local tip. You may also consider another alternative vehicle, like a huge van, for transporting your old sofa.

• Collection by Local Council

Local councils offer waste collection services for the residents. These councils also offer collection of unwanted bulky items from households, such as bedding, sofas, refrigerators, or other WEEE waste.

Although the local councils charge separate rates for bulky waste collection, its prices are quite cheap. However, one may face an issue with the excessive slow speed and inconvenience of their services. Sofa removal with local councils may consume several weeks. In fact, certain local councils do not always agree to collect bulky waste right from the residents’ property.

• Disposal with Man and Van Collectors

You may hire a sofa removal in London agency if you face delays with local council collection or want your sofa removal from inside your property. In fact, appointing a man and van waste collection service also gives you the advantage of clearance services for some other items.

Before hiring a man and van collector agency, make sure to check their proper licensing and insurance. Also look at if the agency disposes of your bulky waste items in a safe and responsible manner suitable for the environmental health. Different waste collector companies often dump bulky wastes illegally in fields or landfill sites. This strategy is referred to as fly tipping waste.

You can look through online platforms to get an idea of the service charges and disposal practices of different waste collector companies. Remember that you need to inform them about the weight and size of your sofa while hiring the service.

• Contact Your Sofa Retailer

If you are purchasing a new sofa, you can approach your retailer to collect your old sofa as a take-back service. On the other hand, you can also approach the company that you bought your old sofa from to take their sofa back if at all they have take-back services. These services will require you to pay certain charges to get rid of your old and unwanted sofa.

What is included in our sofa collection operations?

Among the major examples of the items that we collect under our sofa collection operations are:

• Sofa cum beds
• Cushions
• Corner or L-shaped sofas
• Double or triple-seater sofas
• Arm chairs
• Couch

Sofa Disposal Complying POP Legislation

Persistent organic pollutants (POP) legislation largely affects sofa disposal prices to rise. POP legislation upholds sofa removal to an energy facility nearby instead of recycling or land filling. This promotes energy conservation with waste disposal. However, sofa disposal with POP legislation includes higher costs for both collection and disposal.

Final Outlook

Bulky waste management, like sofa disposal, is quite a daunting task. In addition, if you want to get rid of your old and unwanted sofa in an effective and eco-friendly way, you have to make extra efforts. Contact Waste Removal London for the safest and most responsible disposal of your old sofa, along with contributing to a sustainable environment.