@Darcy – Awesome awesome awesome! Great suggestions – thank you!

Aveda stores take rigid plastic caps, I hear, and one of my neighbors collects them and takes them every so often, so we keep a container under the sink next to our regular recycling to save those up.

Our town hall has techno trash for everything from old CDs (think AOL freebies from the mail or out-of-date backups) and VHS tapes (that can’t go to the library for resale to raise money) to whole computers (when good hard drives and power supplies go bad). Any computer stuff that still works, there’s a local place called Computers Assisting People. They took an old scanner, a printer, a monitor, cell phones, software/manuals, and they set up systems for people in women’s shelters, etc.

I know some schools take old magazines for craft projects and they also take donations of craft supplies. I route mine through some neighbors with kids since I don’t have kids.

Oh, and let’s not forget compost. Food scraps but also things like brown paper towels (the white ones are bleached and can leach toxins into soil) and even hair (swept up off the floor, perhaps our cat’s main contribution to the household economy?) and fingernails. Recycle it all into delicious soil for your garden.

So many great ways to keep things out of landfill. Excellent post!
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They do have a limit of two per day But, still! So nice and easy!