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01. Appliances: Goodwill and other programs
like Habitat for Humanity ReStore and the Salvation Army accept
working appliances, or you can contact the Steel Recycling
Institute to find a recycling program near you!
02. Batteries: Rechargeable batteries and
single-use can be recycled. Visit the Battery Solutions website or
check with your local retailers. Some retailers (like Best Buy)
offer recycling options for free in their stores.
03. Cardboard boxes: Contact local nonprofits and
women’s shelters to see if they can use them. Or, offer up used
cardboard boxes at your local Freecycle.org or on Craigslist.org
for others who may need them for moving or storage. If your
workplace collects at least 100 boxes or more each month,
UsedCardboardBoxes.com accepts them for resale. Most cardboard can
also be recycled with your paper. We save boxes though, just in
case we might need them later.
04. CDs/DVDs/Game Disks: Send scratched music or
computer CDs, DVDs, and PlayStation or Nintendo video game disks to
AuralTech for refinishing, and they’ll work like new: 888/454-3223,
www.auraltech.com. They can also be used in art projects.
05. Clothes: Wearable clothes can go to your local
Goodwill outlet or shelter. Donate wearable women’s business
clothing to Dress for Success, which gives them to low-income women
as they search for jobs, 212/532-1922, www.dressforsuccess.org.
Offer unwearable clothes and towels to local animal boarding and
shelter facilities, which often use them as pet bedding. Consider
holding a clothes swap at your office, school, faith congregation
or community center. Swap clothes with friends and colleagues, and
save money on a new fall wardrobe and back-to-school clothes.
06. Compact fluorescent bulbs: Take them to your
local IKEA, Home Depot, Best Buy stores for recycling.
07. Compostable bio-plastics: You probably won’t
be able to compost these in your home compost bin or pile. Find a
municipal composter to take them to at www.findacomposter.com.
08. Computers and electronics: Find the most
responsible recyclers, local and national, at
www.ban.org/pledge/Locations.html.
09. Exercise videos: Swap them with others at
www.videofitness.com.
10. Eyeglasses: Your local Lion’s Club or eye care
chain may collect these. Lenses are reground and given to people in
need.
11. Foam packing: Your local pack-and-ship store
will likely accept foam peanuts for reuse. Or, call the Plastic
Loose Fill Producers Council to find a drop-off site: 800/828-2214.
For places to drop off foam blocks for recycling, contact the
Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers, 410/451-8340,
www.epspackaging.org/info.html
12. Ink/toner cartridges: Recycleplace.com pays
$1/each.
13. Miscellaneous: Get your unwanted items into
the hands of people who can use them. Offer them up on your local
Freecycle.org or Craigslist.org listserv, or try giving them away
at Throwplace.com or giving or selling them at iReuse.com.
iReuse.com will also help you find a recycler, if possible, when
your items have reached the end of their useful lifecycle.
14. Oil: Find Used Motor Oil Hotlines for each
state: 202/682-8000, www.recycleoil.org. In some locations, your
trash pick up service might also offer to recycle your oil for
free.
15. Phones: Donate cell phones: Collective Good
will refurbish your phone and sell it to someone in a developing
country: 770/856-9021, www.collectivegood.com. Call to Protect
reprograms cell phones to dial 911 and gives them to domestic
violence victims: www.donateaphone.com. Recycle single-line phones:
Reclamere, 814/386-2927, www.reclamere.com.
16. Sports equipment: Resell or trade it at your
local Play It Again Sports outlet, 800/476-9249,
www.playitagainsports.com.
17. “Technotrash”: Easily recycle all of your CDs,
jewel cases, DVDs, audio and video tapes, cell phones, pagers,
rechargeable and single-use batteries, PDAs, and ink/toner
cartridges with GreenDisk’s Technotrash program. For $30, GreenDisk
will send you a cardboard box in which you can ship them up to 70
pounds of any of the above. Your fee covers the box as well as
shipping and recycling fees. 800/305-GREENDISK,
www.greendisk.com.
18. Tennis shoes: Nike’s Reuse-a-Shoe program
turns old shoes into playground and athletic flooring.
www.nikereuseashoe.com. One World Running will send still-wearable
shoes to athletes in need in Africa, Latin America, and Haiti.
www.oneworldrunning.com.
19. Toothbrushes and razors: Buy a recycled
plastic toothbrush or razor from Recycline, and the company will
take it back to be recycled again into plastic lumber. Recycline
products are made from used Stonyfield Farms’ yogurt cups.
888/354-7296, www.recycline.com.
20. Tyvek envelopes: Quantities less than 25: Send
to Shirley Cimburke, Tyvek Recycling Specialist, 5401 Jefferson
Davis Hwy., Spot 197, Room 231, Richmond, VA 23234. Quantities
larger than 25, call 866/33-TYVEK.
21. Items that can’t be recycled: When practical,
send such items back to the manufacturer and tell them they need to
manufacture products that close the waste loop responsibly.
Source : organiccommonsense
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