Unstuffing your home doesn’t mean everything has to go in the trash.
I work extra hard to keep as much as possible out of landfills.
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recycle worn, torn or stained clothing, linens and shoes
In Texas, Green City Recycler offers free home pick-up services for your unwanted or unusable clothing, shoes, linens, belts, purses, bags, hats and toys. They also offer drop-off at their recycling pods.
Also, the American Textile Recycling Service offers clothing and shoe recycling bins across several states. Both are great options for disposing of damaged clothing and even personalized items such as school and work uniforms and high school letter jackets that can’t be donated.
Repurpose your wedding gowns and prom dresses
Several charities accept wedding gowns and other formal attire to create infant burial gowns that are provided to hospitals and funeral homes, including the Emma and Evan Foundation. For prom dresses, The Giving Gown Foundation accepts gowns appropriate for Prom year-round. Gowns can be donated at any Houston-area Tide Dry Cleaners.
Don’t flush expired or unneeded medicine
Certain Walgreen’s locations offer kiosks for safe medication disposal. Use the Walgreen’s website to locate your nearest pharmacy kiosk. You also can ask your pharmacist for DisposeRx packets that make it safe to throw away medication at home.
Recycle your small beauty product containers
Ulta is partnering with Pact Collective, a nonprofit working to help end packaging waste, by collecting hard-to-recycle beauty empties. The Beauty Dropoff™ is available at all Ulta Beauty locations.
Recycle plastic bags and packaging
Target stores have guest recycling stations available in the front of each store for recycling plastic bags and bubble wrap, as well as bottles and cans, small electronic devices (such as MP3 players, GPS devices) and ink cartridges.
recycle old computers and other technologies
CompuCycle in Houston offers free residential drop-off to make it easy to recycle old or broken electronics. This is a great option for laptops, tablets, cell phones, printers, scanners, smartwatches, fitness trackers, USB flash drives, TVs, speakers, digital cameras, and charging cables, power cords and adapters.