They say one man's trash is another man's treasure - and that's certainly the case inside this huge Manchester warehouse filled with toys, furnishings, bikes, TVs and washing machines. Here at the Renew Hub on Trafford Park is where thousands of unwanted and unloved items left at 20 of Manchester's tips are taken to be given a new lease of life.
A dedicated team clean up, repair or completely refurbish items like cabinets, chairs, bikes and electricals - which then go up for sale at a fraction of the usual retail prices at three public Renew shops at tips in Altrincham, Oldham and Eccles.
You can get Dyson hoovers for £25, printers for £15 or a chest of drawers for £20. There are rows and rows of bikes that will be reconditioned and resold - from as little as £20 for kids' bikes up to £300 for sports bikes that would cost £750 or more to buy new.
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And key to all of this is that buying the goods also helps others too. All the money raised from the sales of the goods goes back to charities across Greater Manchester.
The Renew Hub is the biggest reuse and repair facility of its kind in the UK having first opened in a warehouse on Trafford Park a year ago. Since then it has "saved" some 50,000 unwanted items left at 20 of Manchester's household waste sites, or the local tip as most people call it.
People can either donate specifically at the tips - or experienced pickers there will spot items left to go for scrap that can then be refurbished and resold. Those items are then driven over to the Renew Hub where the work starts on giving them a new lease of life.
And the scale of this place is eye-popping. Walking into the
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