Want to Know What to Do With Your Unwanted Stuff?
Spring is here and ’tis the season for spring cleaning. I’ve been spending the last week or so going through all our closets and drawers, making piles of things to get rid of. I’m trying to streamline a bit, and having less “stuff,” is part of the grand plan. But what to do with what you want to get rid of? Here are some great places to recycle your items and keep them out of landfills:
- Pedals for Progress takes your old bikes and gives them to charities in other countries where they are given to those in need.
- Have an old digital camera? Operation Homefront donates them to military families so they can stay in touch with their loved ones while they’re away from home.
- CDs, DVDs, floppy disks and videos? Send them to ACT Recycling. They provide jobs to people with disabilities and help them in refurbishing the items for sale.
- Soles4Souls would love your gently worn shoes … they give them to those in need in 60 countries worldwide.
- Just upgraded your cell phone? Give your old one to Call to Protect. They sell them and use the proceeds to aid victims of domestic violence.
- Have musical instruments that your kids aren’t using anymore? Operation Happy Note will gladly take them and send them to soldiers deployed overseas.
- One Warm Coat, which sponsors coat drives around the country, will gladly take your winter coats.
- Are you updating your computer hardware? If you have a computer with at least a Pentium III Processor, The On It Foundation would love to have it. Donated computer equipment goes to low-income families.
- Even your old sneaks could breathe new life again. Reuse-a-Shoe takes the rubber to make play surfaces for kids worldwide.
- Cleaning out your home library? Send your old, unwanted books to The International Book Project, who will distribute them amongst schools, orphanages and libraries in need.
