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Ideas on Reducing Waste & Recycling More
Ideas on Reducing Waste & Recycling More
| Stop those catalogs from coming! | CatalogChoice.org: Here's a new service called CatalogChoice.org that is a project of the Ecology Center and endorsed/sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Overbrook Foundation, the Merck Family Fund, and the Kendeda Fund. You have to sign up and create an account, but then you can go online and check off which catalogs you don't want to receive -- even those catalogs that come to your house addressed to previous residents! |
| Stop those Yellow (and White) Pages directories from being dropped off at your house every year! | Sign-Up to stop receiving phone books: Yellow Pages Go Green! from their FAQ:
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| Reduce your junk mail! | Here's another website that helps you reduce your junk mail:https://www.dmaconsumers.org/consumerassistance.html also see: http://www.ecocycle.org/junkmail/index.cfm |
| Use reusable grocery bags | Plastic Bags Are Evil (This page is on the Hyattsville Wiki) Which stores have reusable bags? I find it very surprising that this page is apparently a fairly rare one -- to see what I mean, click on the following link to do a Google search on the term "Giant reusable grocery bags" (or do your own search) to see where our Wiki page ranks; as of this writing 11/18/07 it ranks 2nd! I learned this as I've been following the SiteMeter statistics (click on the count meter at bottom left corner of the page) and have seen that this page is attracting Googlers almost everyday, from all over the country!) |
| Reduce your kitchen waste | National Geographic's Green Guide: "Three Steps to Reducing Kitchen Paper Waste" |
| Where can I recycle something? Got an idea for an item not in this list? Or an additional suggestion for an item already listed? Please add it -- just click on the "EASY EDIT" button above and have at it! | |
| Consult these suggestions, some of which come from http://www.coopamerica.org and some of which come from us! ▼ | Or call Earth911 |
| 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. |
| Batteries: | LOCAL DROP BOX: MOMs (My Organic Market) in College Park, recycles batteries of all types (except car batteries) in a small bucket near the frozen food. 9827 Rhode Island Ave, (301) 220-1100. Here is Mom's Recycling Page. (They also recycle fluorescent bulbs and plastic bags in bins located outside the store). . If you buy a new car battery, you can trade in your old car battery at most retail outlets, such as Pep Boys. They even pay you for it. . Rechargeables and single-use: Battery Solutions, 734/467-9110, www.batteryrecycling.com |
| Cardboard boxes: | Contact local nonprofits and women's shelters to see if they can use them. Or, offer them up at your local Freecycle.org listserv or on Craigslist.org. If your workplace collects at least 100 boxes or more each month, UsedCardboardBoxes.com accepts them for resale. Or your weekly recycle container. |
| 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. |
| Cell phones | see "Phones," below |
| 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, save money on a new fall wardrobe and back-to-school clothes – then donate the rest. |
| Compact fluorescent bulbs: | Take them to your local IKEA store for recycling: www.ikea.com, MOMs Grocery and Home Depot take them as well. See Mercury in CFLs and Recycling for more information. |
| 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. |
| Computers and electronics: | Find the most responsible recyclers, local and national, at www.ban.org/pledge/Locations.html Costco.com is now offering electronics recycling & trade-ins through Greensight. Recycle:
More info: http://www.greensight.com/CostcoTrades/Common/equiptypes.aspx?SiteXfrMsg=1 |
| Exercise videos: | Swap them with others at www.videofitness.com |
| Eyeglasses: | Your local Lion's Club or eye care chain may collect these. Lenses are reground and given to people in need. |
| Foam Packing peanuts: | Your local pack-and-ship store will likely accept these for reuse. e.g. the UPS store (Mailboxes etc) in College Park gladly accepts them (located near the bike shop, around back from the 7-11 store on Knox). 301 699 0191. M-F 9-7, Sat 10-4. 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 |
| Ink/toner cartridges: | Recycleplace.com pays $1/each. (They send you prepaid UPS labels after you register); See also “Technotrash”, below. LOCAL DROP BOX: FedEx Kinko's in College Park has a drop box to recycle cell phones and inkjet cartridges |
| 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. |
| Oil: | Find Used Motor Oil Hotlines for each state: 202/682-8000, www.recycleoil.org. |
| Plastics: | I found this in the National Resources Defense Council e-newsletter This Green Life that Rumi posted to the Hyattsville HOPE list - Dwight Appearances may deceive. The chasing arrow symbol used on plastic packages is misleading. Because it looks like a recycling sign, it suggests that the package is recyclable, but that is not necessarily the case. Recyclability is determined by the type of resin the plastic is made of, which is indicated by the number inside the arrows. The numbers go up to 7, but usually only #1 and #2 are recyclable. [Currently only #1 and #2 are recyclable with Prince George's County's system] |
| 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. LOCAL DROP BOXES FOR CELL PHONES:
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| Sports equipment: | Resell or trade it at your local Play It Again Sports outlet, 800/476-9249, www.playitagainsports.com |
| “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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Stuff you just can't recycle: | When practical, send such items back to the manufacturer and tell them they need to manufacture products that close the waste loop responsibly. |
| Sources: "21 Things You Didn't Know You Could Recycle" (from http://www.coopamerica.org) | |
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