ShredRite Facebook ad: “Old Quran, kitab and madrasah book collection in Singapore”

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We had cleared the whole flat. Except one shelf. The dinner plates were wrapped. The curtains were down. Abang had written “NEW FLAT” on so many boxes that the marker was running dry. Then Ayah opened the cupboard behind his bedroom door. “What about these?” Qurans. Kitab. A stack of religious books we had carefully worked around all weekend. Abang came in carrying packing tape. “Bring everything first?” Ayah looked at the boxes already lining the corridor. “Then next time you will ask me the same thing.” We laughed. Then we looked back at the shelf. Ayah was moving to a smaller flat. For the past few weekends, we had been helping him decide what would fit and where everything should go. The dining table had gone to a cousin. Abang had taken the spare bed. Mak had chosen the pots she wanted and reminded us, twice, that the dented one was still her best pot for cooking rice. There had been a decision for almost everything. But the books had stayed where they were. I sat on the floor and started lifting them out. Some were in good condition. Ayah's everyday Quran was among them. There were kitab he still opened, and a few copies Abang wanted to bring home. Then I reached for a Quran with a cover worn smooth at the corners. Ayah put his hand out. “Hold underneath.” The binding had separated. He had been keeping the loose pages together inside the cover. Beside it were religious booklets with rusty staples, old notes and books that had been moved from one shelf to another for years. I asked which ones he wanted to keep. He pulled his chair closer. We went through them together. He knew where some had come from. Others made him stop and think before he remembered. A friend who had given him a book after a class. A booklet brought home from a family gathering. Notes he had tucked away because he wanted to read them again. Mak came in and found a shopping list between two pages. “That's why I couldn't find it.” She read it out. Rice. Onions. Tea. Abang asked whether we still needed the onions. For a while, we were sitting around the books laughing, instead of packing. Then Ayah gathered the loose pages of the damaged Quran and asked the question we had been avoiding. “This one, how?” My first thought was to pass the whole lot to someone who could use them. But we had already put the usable copies aside. I opened one of the remaining books. Several pages were missing. Another had a section held in place by its cover. Giving someone that box would leave them with the same question. So I searched for what to do with damaged Qurans and religious books in Singapore. I found discussions about disposal. I read a few, sent links to Abang and tried to work out what we could actually arrange. Ayah asked whether I had found somewhere. “Still checking.” That answer lasted through another weekend. The damaged materials went into a box beside the cupboard. The new flat was nearly ready. Ayah's useful books were packed separately, but that box still had no destination. One evening, Abang asked whether we should simply take it to my place. I had room in the storeroom. I also knew what would happen. We would finish the move, get busy and leave it there until somebody asked about it again. “Let me check one more thing,” I said. I had found ShredRite's page for Old Quran, kitab and madrasah book collection in Singapore. They collected from the doorstep. That answered where we could hand over the materials. Ayah wanted to know what happened after that. I brought my phone over and read the process with him. The team would weigh the materials in front of us at the door. They would then take them to their facility for P-5 micro-shredding, followed by recycling. “The shredding is there?” he asked. “Yes. They collect here and take the materials to their facility.” He looked at the box, then back at the page. We checked the pricing too: S$5.50/kg for books, plus a booking fee. We could use one of the mosque referral codes to reduce the usual S$20 fee to S$10. Now we had something specific to discuss. Abang read the page on his own phone. Mak asked us to check the collection address carefully because she was already getting the old and new unit numbers mixed up. We sent our booking request through WhatsApp for confirmation. Before the collection, we opened the box once more. Ayah's everyday Quran was safely in his bag. Abang's chosen books were already at his home. We checked for loose notes and gathered the damaged materials we had agreed to dispose of. On collection day, I stayed at the flat with Ayah. The materials were weighed at the doorstep, in front of us, before the team took them away. When I went back into the bedroom, Ayah was sitting beside the cupboard. There was a pale rectangle on the shelf where the books had been. I got a cloth and wiped it. He asked me whether the person taking the cupboard was coming that afternoon. I could finally tell them it was empty. Later, as we were getting ready to leave, I reached for Ayah's bag. He took it from me. “My Quran is inside. I'll carry this.” There were still things to do at the new flat. Curtains to hang. Boxes to unpack. A place to decide on for Mak's favourite pot. But we weren't bringing an unanswered question with us in another box. If you are clearing a family home, give everyone time to choose the books they want to keep. Useful copies can be passed on where someone wants them. For religious materials ready for disposal, ShredRite offers doorstep collection across Singapore. Books cost S$5.50/kg. Use either ALEEM10 for Masjid Abdul Aleem Siddique or KHALID10 for Masjid Khalid to reduce the usual S$20 booking fee to S$10. The weight rate stays unchanged, and the discounts do not combine. View the service details on our website, then send your collection request through WhatsApp for confirmation. Save the page for the family discussion, or arrange the next step for the box you have already sorted.

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