Don’t Throw It Away: How Your Scrap Metal Donations Help Build Homes
Most people don’t think twice about old metal items taking up space in the garage, shed or workshop. But those unwanted materials could help support affordable housing right here in our local community.
At the Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg ReStores, located in Newport News, Williamsburg and Yorktown, scrap metal donations are recycled to generate funding that helps build and repair homes for local families — and donating is as simple as dropping items off at a ReStore donation dock during donation hours.
Find a ReStore location near you and explore the hours for donation drop-offs.
Many everyday household and workshop items qualify, including grills, bed frames, metal shelving, pipes, exercise equipment, washers and dryers and miscellaneous metal pieces. Please note that dishwashers cannot be accepted.
Once collected, the metal is sorted and recycled, and Habitat receives funding that goes directly toward affordable housing construction and repair programs across the Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg region.
Not sure you have any old metal to donate?
You might be surprised how much scrap metal is already sitting around unused — old shelving in the garage, broken exercise equipment, leftover pipes from a project, outdated appliances.
It all adds up.
And donating instead of hauling it to the dump means those materials stay out of landfills and get a second purpose that genuinely matters.
Before your next cleanout, consider making a stop at your local Habitat ReStore.
Clearing out your garage, shed or workshop could help create safe, affordable housing for families in this community — one piece of scrap metal at a time.
