Recyclopedia helps you find information on how to correctly dispose of unwanted items and materials. Please select the item or material you want to dispose of below. We'll tell you whether it can go out with the trash, in your recycling, to a charity, or if it needs special attention.
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Each community has it's own Recyclopedia section. Please type an address or move the red pin to set your location and we'll find your community - or choose your community from the list below the map.
Constantly manufacturing new products drains our limited natural resources - and disposing of unwanted, but still usable, materials pollutes our environment.
Source reduction, including reuse, can help reduce waste disposal and handling costs, because it avoids the costs of recycling, municipal composting, landfill, and combustion.
One way to prevent waste and improve our communities is to take useful products discarded by those who no longer want or need them and provide them to those who do.
Every community has some existing form of reuse and, every community needs more reuse.
In -------- there are many opportunities to reuse items—through garage sales, swap meets, resale stores, etc.
We need to prevent waste in the first place (waste prevention), also known as "source reduction," which is the practice of designing, manufacturing, purchasing, or using materials (such as products and packaging) in ways that reduce the amount or toxicity of trash created. Reusing items is another way to stop waste at the source because it delays or avoids that item's entry in the waste collection and disposal system.
The reuse, rental and repair sector helps achieve that and includes:
Each community has it's own Recyclopedia section. Please type an address or move the red pin to set your location and we'll find your community - or choose your community from the list below the map.
