Textbooks
Recyclable?
Blue Bins & Chutes
Other Recycling
Recommended
Freecycle / Give Away
One of the best ways to pass on textbooks is through the annual Share a Textbook drive by Fairprice.
Fairprice Share-A-Textbook
Alternative
Freecycle / Give Away
There are a few online communities that may be interested in textbooks that are not out of date.
Assessment books are also welcome if they have not been filled in.
School Kaki
Books Don't Throw
GoodHood
Alternative
Buy or Sell
Poly and Uni level textbooks are sometimes bought and sold 2nd hand through online channels.
Likewise you may get credit for them at Thryft.
Carousell
Thryft
Alternative
Recycle as Paper
Textbooks are accepted in the recycling system as paper. Please follow the advice here.
Alternative
Tips & Suggestions
Your school library may welcome old textbooks - contact your school library officer.
Info & Insights
We generally do NOT recommend you dump your textbooks at the library free shelves because they almost never get taken and it burdens staff with throwing out the books. You are better to simply arrange to recycle it yourself.
Assessment books that are filled in should be recycled like scrap paper.
Note that few people are interested in outdated textbooks and encyclopedias. You can try give them away but please do not dump them on library free shelves which is just passing on the disposal burden to someone else.
