The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District is a great source for Clevelanders who are looking for information on how to alleviate their impact on local landfills and the world's resources by recycling and reusing usable items. The CCSW offers tips on how you can dispose of certain items, where you can find recycling centers in your city and where you can donate usable items to be reused by those in need.
They offer a great variety of online publications including office recycling schemes, latex paint disposal and halting unwanted mail (my personal scourge).
My favorite by far is the Pass It On: A Resource-Full Guide to Donating Usable Stuff. With it you can find a new home for all that stuff that clutters your house that you don't ever use (and probably won't) without the guilt of throwing it out because you think that someday, you may be able to put that 5 1/4" floppy drive and old cross country skies to use. Heck, some of the stuff can even be tax-deductible if you are into that sort of thing.
Of course there are other resources (tons of them really) that you can use. There are online resources such as Freecycle which is an online bulletin board which allows you to seek for items to find and list items you would like to give away or there is the wonderful Craig's List where you can sell your old items (or look for a job or find a new apartment or house or best friend).
So get rid of your old skies and Apple IIe's and enjoy the openness and overall well being that comes with leading a simple clutter free life. Or simply replace the older items with newer energy efficient things. Someone, somewhere is probably looking for a cheap pair of skies right now.
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