We will take most household vacuum cleaners or sewing machines in trade. The exceptions would be the brands we don't work on at all. We do not buy old vacuums but we will accept metal machines that we can recycle or plastic machines that would have parts we might need as donations. We recycle all the metal (and cardboard for that matter) that we can. My parents were adults through the depression and my mom told me how during WW2 you even had to turn in your old toothpaste tube(they were metal rather than plastic), so I was brought up to waste nothing. Unfortunately, many of the plastic vacuums made today in Asia are made to run a couple of years and go into the landfill, and I have not found a place that takes ABS(the plastic most vacuums are made of), so there is almost nothing to recycle on them other than the cord and the motor, and the labor to get the motor out far exceeds the value of the material in the motor in most cases. BUT, if we can use some of the plastic parts to repair another vacuum, it is worth taking apart. If you have a plastic vacuum you wish to donate please call us first to see if we are interested. Metal we'll gladly take.

     PLEASE do not abandon plastic vacuums in the parking lot or Manzella's dumpster. You wouldn't believe what it costs for dumpster dumping and it seems between us we fill the dumpster up every few days. If you have an old plastic vacuum that we don't want, please put it with your garbage or put it out by your curb and see if someone with lots of time will take it and try to fix it themselves.Here's where you can enter in text. Feel free to edit, move, delete or add a different page element.return to homepage