There's more to recycling than melting down plastic soda bottles to make new plastic soda bottles. These days you can recycle everything from toothbrushes to your wedding dress, turn medicine bottles into life jackets and old running shoes into new playground surfacing-how's that for reincarnation? Discover how and where to recycle everything you never thought you could...
Recycle: Call Complete Recycling Solutions (CRS) to schedule a pick-up for your mercury devices.
Donate/Recycle: Not all curbside recycling programs recycle metal pots and pans. These can be donated for reuse to the Salvation Army, Goodwill or thrift stores. Find out more about your municipal recycling program from the National Recycling Coalition.
Donate: Donate tools to your local Habitat for Humanity where they can be put to good use building affordable housing.
Recycle: Freecycle is an international grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. One person's trash is another person's treasure! Everything posted on Freecycle is free; individuals and groups work out their own bartering systems. Sell it on Craig's List and you make the arrangements with the buyer for pick-up/drop-off. Or if eBay is your seller of choice, consider using Mission Fish to support your favorite causes through trading on eBay. A portion of the profits go to a nonprofit of your choosing, and you get a tax deductible receipt!
Don't give up on your stuff! There's a better option than the trash and we found it. Scroll through our list and find out how to recycle everything from makeup to eyeglasses, paint, light bulbs, and even your toothbrush.
Interests: Parenting (Jack 5yrs and Owen 3yrs), Human Growth and Development, Evolving Consciousness, Integral Life Practice, Coaching, Change Management, Creativity, and Freedom.
Inspiration: Witnessing my sons discovering the world and themselves, watching someone overcome all odds, listening to someone's deep dark secrets (and telling someone mine), a fully expressed performer, art, the rawness of humanity, and unconditional love.