Hearing Aid Recycling – what you think!

To whom it may concern,

Please find enclosed several different hearing aids, batteries, and attachments from my father. My Mother and I do hope that you are able to help us donate these, so hopefully they or the parts can be use to someone.

Please find enclosed 2 sets of BTE hearing aids and various items plus unused batteries for putting to good use.

Hope these old hearing aids can be recycled.

These were my mum’s, I really hope that someone else will be able to benefit from them. I have been deaf from birth and very fortunate to have free NHS hearing aids all my life.

Having been deaf for many years I had accumulated a small collection of my previously used NHS and private hearing aids. They’d been sitting in the back of a drawer for a long time. I was amazed and thrilled to find out that it would be possible for them to be cleaned up and sent to help children in Africa and Eastern Europe. I couldn’t find all the old boxes so I either boxed them or just wrapped them in a few layers of kitchen roll and put them in the post. It made me very happy to be able to do something worthwhile with them. Thank you Hearing Aid Recycling.

Hi Zoe, Thank you for your email, I am an individual and got to hear of your organisation from a family friend, I had been making enquiries to where I could donate these hearing aids which are virtually new, which came from a good friend and neighbour who has passed away.

I did try returning them to Specsavers but said they could not accept them? So was very pleased to have had your contact details, and an organisation to make good use of them.

Best Wishes, BP, Surrey.

‘This is a phenomenal idea!  Bravo!!!’

‘Great idea!  Just shared with our Care Home Team,  who I am sure will take it forward’

‘What a great intitiative’

‘In amongst all the sadness of losing our father it gave us a small measure of comfort to donate his hearing aids.  To know that they will go on to help others hear better.  Thank you Hearing Aid Recycling.’

Dear Zoe,

Please find enclosed my late Mother’s hearing aids.

My Mum would be pleased to know that she could help others with her passing.

Dear Zoe,

please find enclosed a set of hearing aids which belonged to my father-in law.  He hardly touched them and they have been sitting in a box on my desk for a year and a bit and we decided to find an organisation to donate them to, to give someone else the chance to make use of them.

I spoke to Natalya at Help in Hearing and she suggested that i send them to you.

I hope that you find them a good home.

Dear Friends,

My Mum wore these hearing aids for many years and found them invaluable in that time.

When I researched online and found your webpage and details.  I felt so relieved that they could be of use and therefor enclose them.

One pair are older NHS hearing aids but hope they can still be of use.

With best wishes and thanks,

C W

Greetings to you all at Hearing Aid Recycling.  I’m so delighted to have discovered your charity.

Enclosed is an assortment of Phonak equipment redundant to me, but which I hope can help someone else.

If you have a leaflet of any sort advertising what you do, and the rquipment you accept, I will try and spread the word among fellow hearing aid users.

Thank you for the valuable work you are doing to help others.

With kind regards,

VG

Hi Folks

I was so pleased to discover your website as it seems such a waste to throw away hearing aids and or their accessories.  Please find enclosed a charger and a few packets of unused batteries.

Wishing you all the best with your admirable work.

Regards,

DB

Enclosed please find two pairs of hearing aids which were dispensed for my father.

I hope that you are able to reuse or recycle these.

With kind regards,

yours faithfully,

PNJ

Hope you are able to make use of these bits and pieces.

Thank you for giving them the chance of a second home,

P

I bought these hearing aids a while ago and have tried them on a few occasions but found them uncomfortable for my ears.  I’m going to try some others instead that I hope will suit me better.

I do hope you can find them a good home,

Sincerely,

M T

Please fond enclosed Mum’s last 2 pairs of hearing aids.  We hope that a couple of people will benefit from their donation.

Please let us know when youu receive them,

Regards,

S E

Dear Sir or Madam,

I enclose hearing aids (3) as one of a pair became damaged for recycling.  These belonged to my late mother, J.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs B

Hi,

I hope that these are useful.  I’m so glad that I found you and will be spreading the word.

I’ve included cases in case they are useful too.  It must be nice to receive something that looks new.

Thank you for taking these,

with all good wishes,

Gaynor W

Please accept these hearing aids for recycling.  The grey one was only purchased on Monday.  I spoke to you on Friday, thank you for your help,

Kind regards,

Annie

I hope you can make use of Mum’s hearing aids – she hardly wore them.

The batteries may be useless!

Thank you for your efforts,

PT

As per our email converesation on 20/6/24 please find enclosed 10x packs of 6 unused hearing aid batteries, size 312.

I hope these will be of use to others.

I’ve enclosed 2 sets of hearing aids which I hope someone will be able to use.  Both were my Mum’s.

Please find enclosed hearing aids donated to us by our families/local people.

Thank you for enabling these to be reused.

Kind regards,

JH

I hope that you can make use of these,

DK

These were my Dad’s, purchased in May 2019,

I hope they may be of some use,

many thanks

Sent on someone else’s behalf.

Hope you can make good use,

kind regards

I hope that these will be of use to your recycling project,

kind regards

Hello,

we just spoke on the phone and I promised to send Dad’s hearing aids to you.

It still upsets me to look at it so I’m glad it is in the box.

Please let me know when it arrives safely.

I do hope someone can use this and thanks for your help,

Many thanks

I hope you can repurpose the enclosed hearing aids.  I didn’t want to throw them away.

After a bit of googling I came across you and the great work that Zoe and all of you do.  It’s inspiring.

I think myMum would be delighted to know her hearing aids might be able to help someone else.

Kind regards

As discussed by email.  Hearing aids and accessories of my husband.

I hope they can be of use to someone, as I know my husband found them a great help,

kind regards,

Thank you for providing a service for recycling my old hearing aid.  Hopefully it will help somebody,

best wishes,

My wife was supplied with the enclosed Starkey hearing aids in September 2020.  I’ve also enclosed some NHS aids that she had earlier.

I hope you can make use of them,

kind regards,

An exchange between TK and Hearing Aid Recycling (HAR)

TK:  ‘Dad would be so happy to help someone else.’

HAR:  ‘Hi T,  Just to let you know the hearing aids arrived safely.  Thank you!  We will make sure they help someone else.  My daughter opened them.  She was touched by your note and sentiment on behalf of your Dad.

Thank you, it probably helps make sense of why the kitchen is always full of hearing aids!

Thank you for sending them and very kindest regards,

Zoe’

TK:   ‘Aw that’s amazing, thank you for letting me know, you’re doing something amazing, I didn’t have the heart to throw them.  Thank you’

Dear Zoe,

thank you very much for your email.  Please find enclosed the hearing aids which I mentioned in my email.  I hope they are in good condition and that you can find a good home for them.

With best regards,

AW

Dear Zoe,

Further to our email correspondence I now enclose my late Father’s hearing aids.

I really do hope they will be o use to someone.

Many thanks for your help and kind regards,

AW

Hello,

Please find enclosed hearing aids for recycling.  They have never been used.

Best regards,

Please find enclosed several hearing aids and attachments which were  my parents.

We trust you will be able to recycle them and put them to good use helping somebody who can’t afford their own aaids.

Yours faithfully,

CW

Please find enclosed my old NHS hearing aids.  Hope they can be of some use to someone,

regards,

Plese find enclosed all of my husbands hearing aids.  I hope you can make use of them.

Please find enclosed a donation of hearing aids, which we understand you refurbish for those in need.

Yours faithfully,

Please find enclosed hearing aids belonging to my husband.  I understand you receive such items and hope they will give someone else the help they gave him.

Yours faithfully,

Pleased to send our first package to you,

With reference to my phone call, last week, please find enclosed Hearing Aids, Batteries, donated for your hearing aid appeal.  It would mean a lot to me to know my husband’s aids could be used to help someone.

Yours sincerely,

I wish to donate these hearing aids and hope they will make a difference to another person,

best wishes,

I hope this turns out to be of use to somebody,

best wishes,

Re:  Pre-loved hearing aids for recycling/donations,

Please find enclosed various pairs of hearing aids donated over some time by clients and their families who no longer require them.

We do hope you find use of the technology in them for people in need.

Yours sincerely,

Please find enclosed my mother’s hearing aids.  She only wore them for a short time.  They have been in a cupboard.  I hope they can be of use to someone else,

I have enclosed my Mum’s old hearing aids and hopefully someone will be able to make use of them.

I hope you can use the two sets of hearing aids enclosed,

kind regards,

Hope you can make use of these hearing ids.  They’re in the plastic box – Tiny, don’t lose them!

I hope these are useful!

I understand you are able to recycle hearing aids.  We hope they maybe worth recycling.

Please find enclosed 1 hearing aid and batteries.  I hope they can be of some use.

I have enclosed my Grandad’s hearing aid.  The charger works but I am not sure the hearing aid does.

Hopefully you can use it for spares or fix it for someone else.

Plese find some hearing aids enclosed.  I undestand from a search online that you accept these.  I hope this is the case.  I also hope you can find some use for them and they are able to help someone.

Dear Zoe,

I thought I had sent you all my old hearing aid equipment, so I was surprised to discover this phonak phone in a drawer yesterday.  I doubt you’ll be able to reunite it with its counterparts that I included with two boxes of stuff I sent you probably 5 or 6 months ago, but hopefully it will be of some use.

Thank you for your note!

With very best wishes,

Please find enclosed a hearing aid for donation.

The hearing aid belonged to my Dad but he wouldn’t use it.  Hopefully, this will be of some use to someone in the future.

I hope that this selection of hearing aids can be repurposed to help someone else.

Thank you so much for providing this service to help people.

Finally got round to packing up the hearing aids.

Hopefully they can be put to good use.

These are my mother’s hearing aids for you to use if you can. She was very deaf. I have thrown away the ear inserts.

Hello

Please find enclosed unused hearing aid batteries that we hope can be of use. They all seem to be in date.

Best Wishes

A  M

Good afternoon,

I just wanted to donate these hearing aids as I now use rechargeable ones and would like these to go to a good home.

Many thanks.

Hope you can make use of these,

I saw on Crystal Hearing website you would like hearing aids to recycle.  I enclose several pairs I no longer use and hope they will be of some use.

Kind regards,

Please find enclosed hearing aids.

There is a set that was NHS supplied and will require new batteries.

The other set was very expensive and not very old.  They are a rechargeable arrangement with bluetooth connectivity to any smart TV.

I do hope they can be of use to somebody.

My Mum would have really wanted her hearing aids to help someone else.  The hospital trod on one, hope you can salvage it!

My Mum would be really pleased to see her hearing aids recycled,

thank you!

I don’t think these have been worn very much.  I hope they can be recycled and put to better use.

I hope they will be of use.

I hope the enclosed will be of use.  They haven’t been used much.  I’ve also enclosed cleaning wires.

Thank you for replying to my email about recycling my hearing aids.  I am pleased they will be useful to another person.

Hope these can be of use to someone!

Hi Zoe

Good afternoon – I have quite a number of hearing aid batteries supplied to me for my NHS hearing aids. Unfortunately, the aids were not satisfactory and I have now bought 2 new aids but until now I was unable to find, firstly how to stop the hearing aid batteries being sent to me and secondly where I might send them so that they can be used for somebody else. They’re all brand new, so if you could give me an address I’ll be very happy to send them.

With many thanks and best wishes-

Thanks for that Zoe.

To be honest, I did contact a reasonably local funeral directors. They were lovely and as helpful as they could be. They knew they offered the service, and were quite prepared to take them, but no one has ever asked for that service before and they really didn’t know how they were supposed to process it all and their head office wasn’t much help to them either, they said. But they did say they would find a way, despite that! I had just assumed they would know, so I felt a bit sorry for giving them extra work!

Anyway, I will find a box and send what I have. Hopefully you will be able to utilise at least some of it. I willl let you know when I have put it in the post – probably in the next couple of days.

I love the idea of the wombling hearing aid organisers! It makes me happy to think that Dad’s hearing aids are going to people like that! I am beginning to think that you will get more use out of the things than he did – he seemed to feel they should be used for “best”, rather than for the times that his daughters were standing on the doorstep ringing the doorbell, or trying to have a conversation with him! He was a nightmare!

Kind regards

I would be very sorry for these items to simply add to landfill, especially his newest ones, which have barely been used!! But if you feel they would be of any use to yu, please let me know what you would like, and I will do my best to get them to you.

Hello,

I have just replaced my Phonak Audeo B hearing rechargeable hearing aids
and would like to donate them for re-use.  Do you just want the hearing
aids?  I also have the charger and lead, and a new pack of wax shields
and some domes.  I can drop them off one of your drop-off centres.

Best wishes,

Hi Fenella

Hi Zoe

Please find enclosed hearing aids.  Hopefully someone can use them.

Many thanks,

M

I hope these are of some use to you,

Dear Zoe,

thanks again for reaching out so that I;ve been able to recycle my Dad’s hearing aids – your efforts are most appreciated!  Here are the hearing aids for you, and some replacement batteries, which should still be fully working too.

Many thanks and warmest regards,

To hearing aid recycling,

Please find enclosed my hearing aid that I no longer need, it had very little use as I was allergic to the material that inserted into the ear.

I hope you will find a new owner for it,

kind regards,

Dear Sirs,

enclosed please find a now redundant pair of hearing aids.  Purchased from Specsavers in Guernsey about 6 years ago.  My wife now has one new hearing aids.  Hopefully you will be able to make use of the old ones and the spare batteries.

We could not find anywhre to recycle them here in Guernsey and I found your details on the internet (where else!)

Keep up the good work.

Kind regards,