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THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU CAN RECYCLE
[From Coop America]
1. Appliances: Goodwill accepts working appliances, www.goodwill.org,
or you can contact the Steel Recycling Institute to recycle them.
800/YES-1-CAN, www.recycle-steel.org.
2. Batteries: Rechargeables and single-use: Battery Solutions,
734/467-9110, www.batteryrecycling.com.
3. Cardboard boxes: Contact local nonprofits and women's shelters to
see if they Boxcan use them. Or, offer up used cardboard boxes at your
local Freecycle.org listserv 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Compact fluorescent bulbs: Take them to your local IKEA store for
recycling: www.ikea.com.
7. 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.
8. Computers and electronics: Find the most responsible recyclers,
local and national, at www.ban.org/pledge/Locations.html.
9. 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 Glassesare 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.
15. Phones: Donate cell phones: Collective Good will refurbish your
phone and sell Cellphoneit 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 ToothbrushRecycline, 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.
http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/caq/articles/21Things.cfm
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THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU CAN RECYCLE
[From Coop America]
1. Appliances: Goodwill accepts working appliances, www.goodwill.org,
or you can contact the Steel Recycling Institute to recycle them.
800/YES-1-CAN, www.recycle-steel.org.
2. Batteries: Rechargeables and single-use: Battery Solutions,
734/467-9110, www.batteryrecycling.com.
3. Cardboard boxes: Contact local nonprofits and women's shelters to
see if they Boxcan use them. Or, offer up used cardboard boxes at your
local Freecycle.org listserv 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Compact fluorescent bulbs: Take them to your local IKEA store for
recycling: www.ikea.com.
7. 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.
8. Computers and electronics: Find the most responsible recyclers,
local and national, at www.ban.org/pledge/Locations.html.
9. 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 Glassesare 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.
15. Phones: Donate cell phones: Collective Good will refurbish your
phone and sell Cellphoneit 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 ToothbrushRecycline, 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.
http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/caq/articles/21Things.cfm
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