Can you recycle wooden furniture?

Solid wood furniture is highly reusable — charity furniture shops, freecycle and marketplace clear it fast. Broken items go in the wood container at recycling centres where the timber is chipped for board manufacture or biomass.

Tips

• Flat-pack (MDF/chipboard) has little resale value — recycle it as wood

Which bin does it go in?

Donate or sell if usable; recycling centre wood container if not.

Before throwing it away, see reuse, repair and donation routes.

Background: The decluttering disposal checklist.

Also searched as: table, chairs, wardrobe, chest of drawers, MDF.