For those who can't easily recycle, search out a STEAM studio or something similar and donate recyclables to them!

My city recently did away with the recycling program. Now, you can only recycle organic goods. Plastic can be taken to one location. It can be inconvenient for a lot of people who would recycle if they had an easy way to. It's also a way for those who live outside the city to recycle as our transfer station and organics recycling is only for city residents.

One thing we've starting doing is donating materials to the local makerspace/STEAM studio. At the bottom, I'll include the list of everything they take.

It's nice because it gets reused by kids and teens that are going to be the next generation of scientists, tech workers, engineers, artists, and mathematicians. Our local place has robotics classes where they make robots out of all of these donations.

Just a thought if you've got stuff that either can't be recycled, or is still in decent shape that you would prefer to reuse a bit more.

• RC cars/planes 
• Old model kits
• PVC Pipe Scraps
• Art/Craft supplies (extra or unwanted, of course!)
• Bottle Caps
• Boxes/cardboard
• Broken/Chipped dishes
• Bubble Wrap 
• Buttons
• Colored paper
• Comic Books
• Confetti
• Corks
• Used dryer sheets
• Egg cartons
• Empty glass jars and bottles
• Empty thread spools
• Fabric 
• Fabric notions
• Frozen juice lids
• Keys no longer needed
• Kleenex boxes
• Magazines
• Dried out markers and pens
• Mesh fruit and vegetable bags
• Mismatched socks
• Nails of all sizes
• Note cards, new or used
• Old cds
• Old calendars
• Old electronics (working or not)
• Old Halloween/dance costumes
• Old Jewelry/broken pieces
• Paper bags
• Paper towel rolls
• Patterned paper
• Plastic bags
• Plastic bread closures
• Playing cards
• Popsicle sticks
• Puzzle pieces
• Raffia
• Ribbon
• Screws of all sizes
• Seashells (broken is fine)
• Shoe boxes
• Small toys
• Soda pop tabs
• Stray game pieces 
• String
• Styrofoam
• Styrofoam packing peanuts 
• Styrofoam food trays
• Thread 
• Tiles, whole or broken (no larger than 12×12, please)
• Tin cans 
• Tissue Paper (new or used)
• Toilet Paper rolls
• Yarn
• Wood scraps

Submitted September 03, 2019 at 07:00PM by TimeLadyJ https://ift.tt/2UzRQk1