Our Collection Bins with a fresh coat of paint. You've seen us in the area!

You might have been to your recycling center or transfer station and heard that they do not allow hardcovers or textbooks, or they won’t take rotted books to be recycled.
Doesn’t that leave you confused? We are here to end the confusion!

We take any type of book, even if it’s damaged.

 Part our focus is recycling, environmental stewardship, sustainability which is why we are committed to accepting all books, even one that are the hardest to deal with.

The most popular question we get is -

“What about encyclopedias, textbooks, and hardcover books?”

Our answer is always: “Yes we can!”

We work with other providers in the waste and recycling systems to ensure that even the books that cannot be resold, reused, or donated, are always recycled responsibly.

We are proud to say:
we have never allowed a book to enter a landfill and that’s part of the heart of our mission.

Sadly, hundreds of millions of books each year are thrown away into the wrong waste stream where they can’t be re-purposed, take up vital space in landfills and cannot degrade! While the toxic glues and chemicals in books can also leach into the soil and water 

Individuals, organizations, businesses, schools and even sometimes libraries too, do not have the resources or knowledge to discard them properly or are unsure what type of books can be discarded and where!

Recycling books is a complex task. Lot's of resources and coordination go into the process. It takes many hours of manpower, brainpower, sweat and heavy lifting, big trucks, specialized equipment, machinery, and even a lot of sophisticated software and technology to help automate parts of the process. The flow must be fast and efficient as books quickly take up a lot of expensive space! There's also a whole complex waste and recycling global chain to navigate from pulping facilities to paper brokers or re-manufactures. So in the end there’s usually just not enough resources dedicated to the proper redistribution and disposal of book waste and it can be a logistical headache.

 That’s where the Never Enough Books Team steps in, as we specialize in dealing with a book’s full-life-cycle. We are doing our part to be an environmentally and socially responsible solution, to help educate organizations and individuals about proper disposal and recycling of books and other materials. In a light week we process between 5 to 10 tonnes (up to 20,000 lbs) of books. That’s approximately 10,000 to 20,000 books a week, but we’re striving to do much more!

Now you have a one-stop solution to call on.

In regards to other forms of media -
 we can also accept audiobooks, CDs, DVDs, Blue Rays, or CD/DISC based Video Games/Software at this time.

We do not accept: VHS or cassettes.

We, unfortunately, don’t yet have a solution to deal with VHS or cassettes, so we would ask that, if possible, individuals and organizations try to keep those out of the bins as it can create problems during the sorting process and we can't recycle these types of items.