How to deal with the stuff that came with your wedding gifts
April 19th, 2007 by Mollie
photo from Flickr (SpooSpa)
My lovely friends Amy and Lee just got married this past weekend! They are in the process of opening gifts, which of course means a houseful of wrapping paper, boxes, and an assortment of packaging materials. The resourceful and very cool, D. Lee did some research and found two sites that help you figure out what to do with that (and any other) miscellaneous waste.
This one will only be directly helpful to those of you living in King County (Seattle, WA). However, it may serve as a reference to help the rest of you find a similar site or resource in your neighborhood.
Have you ever bought a new appliance and wondered how to get rid of your old one? Found stacks of old business periodicals you want to recycle? Upgraded your organization’s computers and ended up with a mountain of old electronic equipment? Every day, King County residents and businesses run across unwanted items that make them wonder: “What do I do with this?”
This site was designed to answer that question! The What do I do with…? directory is a database that contains listings of hundreds of businesses and organizations that accept unwanted items from residents and businesses in King County, Washington, for reuse, recycling or proper disposal.
The Plastic Loose Fill Council helps you find a place near you to bring all those packing peanuts.
The Plastic Loose Fill Council (PLFC) was founded in 1991 to develop, promote and implement the original use and subsequent recovery, reuse and recycling of polystyrene loose fill, commonly known as “packing peanuts.”
The Peanut Hotline, 800-828-2214 and loosefillpackaging.com, is the national reuse program for plastic packing peanuts. Consumers can drop off their leftover plastic packing peanuts at Peanut Hotline collection sites. There are over 1,500 collection sites in the US.
Earth 911 is also to good site to check out. It will help you find a local place where you can drop of anything from plastic bottles to electronics to hazardous waste to be reused, recycled, or properly disposed of.