RECYCLING & DISTRIBUTION CENTER

When you shop Waterfront Thrift Stores you’re recycling! When you donate your gently-used household goods, furniture and clothing to Waterfront Thrift Stores – you’re recycling!

OUR GOAL

Let nothing go to waste that can be used to give people and items fresh starts and second chances!

By donating to us, you’re giving your unwanted items a second chance to be used and enjoyed by someone else and helping the Mission fund its rescue and recovery program for our community’s homeless, addicted and poor!

OUR RESULTS

Our Recycling & Distribution Center makes every effort to put your donation to its best possible use by distributing a huge assortment of gently-used items for resale to our Thrift Stores located throughout the Florida Panhandle and the Gulf Coast of Alabama. Nothing goes to waste! Even the cardboard boxes that you’ll use to transport your donation will be recycled to help fund our homelessness and addiction recovery ministry at the Waterfront Rescue Mission.

We recycle a variety of items, including clothing, metals, electronic waste, books, purses, shoes, and cardboard. In 2021, we accomplished:

  • Over 183,000 pounds of product recycled per month
  • 2.2 million pounds of product recycled per year
Photo of a Waterfront Thrift Stores truck
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS ACCEPTED
  • Textiles: clothing, bed linens, blankets, pillows, tablecloths, drapes (must be in dry condition; need not be in sellable condition)
  • Clothing Accessories: wearable shoes, hats, purses, belts, luggage (must be in dry condition; need not be in sellable condition
  • Aluminum: cans, cast, and siding
  • Copper Wire: defective Christmas lights and copper wiring of all kinds
  • Electric motors: power tools, garden tools, vacuum cleaners, etc (must be in dry AND sellable/working condition)
  • Used batteries: automotive, marine, lawn mower, cell phone
  • Metals: includes aluminum, copper, stainless steel, scrap steel, insulated wire, and light strings (no coaxial cable) (virtually all metals can be recycled and will benefit the Mission)
  • Cardboard: boxes of all kinds (must be in dry condition and cannot be waxed)
  • Electronic waste: includes computers, flat screens, cell phones, tablets, power tools, etc (Sorry, due to disposal fees we are unable to accept tube TVs or computer monitors)
  • Large appliances: Must be clean. Dishwashers are not accepted.
  • Used batteries: automotive, marine, lawn mower, cell phone
  • Cardboard: boxes of all kinds (must be in dry condition and cannot be waxed)
  • Scrap metal: broken bed frames, high chairs, food containers, broken hardware, etc (virtually all metals can be recycled and will benefit the Mission)
  • Corded electronic equipment Sorry, due to disposal fees we are unable to accept tube TVs or computer monitors
  • Large and small appliances Appliances need to be in working condition to be recycled. Dishwashers are not accepted.
Recycling & Distribution Center

388 West Herman Street
Pensacola, FL 32505
Monday - Friday 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Donation Hours: 10 A.M. - 4 P.M.
(850) 607-8340
Closed Saturday & Sunday

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WANT TO DO MORE?

Helping Waterfront Rescue Mission provide critical services “free of charge” for Gulf Coast homeless is easier than you may think!

Here are a few simple ways that your business, church, school or civic organization can come alongside the Mission to supply live-saving, life-changing rescue and recovery services:

  • Aluminum can drive
  • Christmas wire (copper wire) drive
  • Clothing drive (all conditions except wet)
  • Shoe drive (all conditions including single shoes)
  • Donate cardboard
  • Donate scrap metals