UPCYCLE DUBUQUE

Materials We Accept

Upcycle Dubuque wants your gently used materials shared with those that need
them. We take donations of all sorts of resources that can be combined to create 

valuable results. We take donations during regular business hours. 

Our Scrap Store: What it contains and how you can help?

Our scrap store is an important part of our store. It will house raw materials that would otherwise end up in our landfill. How will we obtain these materials? That is where you come in! Think of us as a trip to the recycle center. If you have items on our list of intake materials bring them to us. We will then repackage them and sell them at a greatly reduced price for crafters, artists, teacher or anyone else who is inspired to create. These materials will be given a new life and help to save valuable space in our landfill. Everything must be clean, rust free and in containers that you do not need returned to you. Please do not leave items at or outside our doors. Thank you for your help! Here is our list...it will evolve over time as we discover what our communities needs are.

SCRAP STORE DONATION LIST

We are accepting donations on Wednesday and Saturday by appointment only.

Thank you for understanding. All donations must be clean, untangled, new or gently used and in containers that you do not need back.

Adhesive vinyl

Art Supplies and tools

Basket making supplies and tools

Bamboo

Beads and Beading supplies

Beeswax

Books (crafting, art or DIY)

Boxes (decorative)

Brushes (art)

Burlap and Cotton Sacks (clean)

Butcher Paper (clean)

Buttons

Calligraphy Supplies

Candle Making Supplies and Tools

Canvas

Cardstock

Carving Tools

Chalk (unused)

Charcoal Sticks

Cigar Boxes

Clay

Construction Paper

Craft Foam

Craft Supplies and Tools

Crayons

Crochet Supplies and Tools

Dolls and doll making supplies

Doorknobs (vintage or antique)

Easels

Fabric (clean ¼ yard minimum)

Feathers

Felt

Glass Insulators

Glass Jars and Containers (interesting size, color or shape)

Globes

Glue

Glue Guns

Glue sticks

Googley Eyes

Hat Boxes

Hoops (art/crafting_

Ink (for crafting or art)

Interesting stones

Jewelry (costume, broken and fancy)

Jewelry Making Supplies and Tools

Keys (old skeleton keys)

Knitting Needles

Lace

Leather

Light Fixtures (Vintage upon approval)

Linens (clean)

Magnets

Maps

Marbles

Markers (even dried, please mark as dry)

Mason Jars

Miniatures

Mirrors (intact and small)

Molds

Notions

Paint (for art and crafting no wall paint)

Painting supplies (art and craft)

Paper

Photographs (vintage and slides)

Photography equipment (functional)

Picture Frames (intact and interesting)

Pipe Cleaners

Poster Board

Rhinestones

Ribbon

Rubber Stamps, Ink and Ink Pads

Scrapbook Paper and supplies

Sewing Machines (newer models, working)

Sewing Supplies

Sewing Patterns (gently used or new)

Sheet Music

Shells

Silk Screening Supplies

Soapmaking Supplies

Stencils

Stickers

Storage Boxes (with lids, clean and intact)

String

T Shirts (gently used or new)

Thread

Tools (crafting or art tools)

Transfer Letters, numbers and paper

Twine

Upholstery (new or gently used 1yard min)

Velcro (new)

Vintage and collectible items

Vinyl (for crafting)

Vinyl records

Weaving supplies and tools

Wine Corks

Wire (for art or crafting)

Wood (crafting/art wood)

Wooden Dowels

Yarn (clean, untangled)

Zippers (unused)