1. Appliances: Many stores will recycle your old appliances when you purchase a new one.  Goodwill accepts working appliances.  Go to www.goodwill.org, or you can contact the Steel Recycling Institute to recycle them at www.recycle-steel.org.

2. Athletic Shoes: One World Running will send still-wearable shoes to athletes in need in Africa, Latin America, and Haiti: www.oneworldrunning.com.  Nike’s Reuse-a-shoe program turns old shoes into playground and athletic flooring: www.nikeuseashoe.com.

3. Batteries: Contact www.batteryrecycling.com.

4. Clothes: Wearable clothes can go to your local Goodwill outlet or shelter.  Donate wearable women’s business clothing to the nonprofit Dress for Success, which gives them to low-income women as they search for jobs: www.dressforsuccess.org.  Offer unwearable clothes to local animal boarding and shelter facilities, which often use them as pet bedding.

5. Compact Fluorescent Bulbs (CFL): Take them to your local IKEA store for recycling: www.ikea.com.  You can also order a Sylvania RecyclePak: www.sylvania.com/recycle/recyclepak.

6. Computers and Electronics: To find the most responsible recyclers go to www.ban.org/pledge/Locations.html.

7. Foam Packing Peanuts: Your local pack-and-ship store will likely accept these for reuse.  Or call the Plastic Loose Fill Producers Council to find a drop-off site: 800/828-2214.  For places to drop off foam blocks for recycling, contact the Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers, 410/451-8340, www.epspackaging.org/info.html.

8. Ink/toner Cartridges: www.recycleplace.com

9. Oil: Find used motor oil hotlines for each state: www.recyleoil.org.

10. Phones: Collective Good will refurbish your phone and sell it to someone in a developing country: www.collectivegood.com. Call to Protect reprograms cell phones to dial 911 and gives them to domestic violence victims: www.donateaphone.com.

Compiled by Green America www.greenamericatoday.org.