Community Chat

[noodleann]

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@stuyvesant wrote:

Donations seem to be an easy way to get around recycling laws.

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Nothing that our local ordinances mandate we recycle would be appropriate for donation. Paperback books CAN be recycled, but are not mandated. They're the only things that would fall into a recyclable category in my area.

You CAN recycle fabrics, including torn and unwearable but clean clothing, to a charity center in another town that also recycles TVs and  monitors (for a fee). I believe they bundle the rags and sell them to firms that make reprocessed fabric.

[ValuSkr]

$1.29 per pound sounds like a good price.  Hope you find some good things.

[stuyvesant]

it's junk.  They are inundated with junk.

There's actually some interesting books about this whole donate stuff you want to throw out business.

[fthunt]

@ValuSkr I don't buy............I donate.    LOL
Right now I have a Dyson vac cleaner - 2 boxes of Westinghouse battery & solar exterior garden lights (from Q).........and other stuff ready for Mission Truck to come and pick up.  I'd be scared to go near a donation store - would see my own stuff there.  I'm really working on clearing out the basement. 

Dishes and some cookware are next to be sorted. 

[ValuSkr]

@fthunt   I have some breakable items - dishes and drinking glasses - I'd like to donate.  Do you wrap such items in tissue paper or newspaper prior to donating, or is that a waste of time?

[fthunt]

@ValuSkr I've done both ways.......with drinking glasses I wrap so they don't clang together and break.  Heavier baking dishes I leave in open box so the guy taking them from me........sees them and I say...glass.  Where I drop off...they employ retarded people, which is good.  But I stress -   it's glass.  

Okay - glass

They are very polite and thank me for the donation.

[fthunt]

P.S. I wrap in newspaper..............more substantial

Go 4 it...........................(smile)

[KarenQVC]

Our city squeezes us on the amount of trash we can put out.  Then the dump charges an arm and a leg if you take the extra out there.  Of course, only certain things go into recycle.

So, people here tend to either hoard their trash or stuff it into those donation bins in the parking lots--or next to those bins. Twice a year the city has a collection week for student trash.  You should see it--piles and piles in vacant lots.