Stop Recycling and Start Reusing

Karen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:03:44 +0000

Let’s face it, 99.9999% of us don’t use a product until the end of it’s life. Cellphones, laptops, desktops, furniture, you name it. You hear about those appliance- or electronics-recycling businesses but did you ever go to look up where they actually are? City of Toronto offers a list of non-profit agencies that collect some of these materials, as part of its ReUseIt Solid Waste Management campaign. Some of the most unlikely things can be donated to these places, like:

batteries, rechargeable or non-rechargeable
bedding
bikes
broken watches
CDs, blank or not
cork
cork boards
costume jewelery
crayons
DVDs, blank or not
drinking bottles, refillable
encyclopedias
fabric, any size
furniture
gas mowers
gas trimmers
handtools
hockey helmets
jerseys
jewelery
keys
mannequins (or mannequin parts)
markers
microwaves
musical instruments
novels
pencils
school supplies (e.g., pencil cases)
sewing machines, in working condition
textbooks
workbooks

TDSB’s Artsjunktion

380 Ossington Ave.
(@College St.)
416-393-0894
eileen.orr@tel.tdsb.on.ca

Artsjunktion is an art program in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). They provide free materials for TDSB teachers, students and day-care staff for use in schools and classroom projects.

Acceptable Items: Children’s Books, National Geographic magazines, CDs, hub caps, mannequins and mannequin parts, hockey helmets, jerseys and skates. Almost anything that can be used for arts and crafts.

Materials for arts programs: broken watches, buttons, cork and cork boards, costume jewellery, crayons, dress-up clothing, fabric (remnants and large pieces), keys, markers, pencils, etc.

Computer and Electronics Recycling

Diabetes Recycle Ink: Empty inkjet/laser printer cartridges and cellphones.
Electronic Recycling Association (ERA): Computers and laptops. Donated computers will have their data wiped with RCMP standards before its refurbished and given to someone who cannot afford a new one.
Interval House: Small appliances, computers, and other things (see website for more details).
ReBoot Canada: Computer, computer components and parts, laptops, printers, scanners, software, etc. Donations will be refurbished and redistributed to charitable organizations.
Renewed Computer Technology (RCT): Computer and peripherals. Refurbished and redistributed locally and globally.
Salvation Army: Small appliances, microwaves, computers, and other things (see website for more details).
SKETCH – Working Arts Studio for Street Involved and Homeless Youth: computers (Mac G4/PC Pentium 3 or better), peripherals, and other art supplies.
thINK Food/Phones for Food: Cell phones, ink jet and laser cartridges.

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Stop Recycling and Start Reusing

TDSB’s Artsjunktion

Computer and Electronics Recycling