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[steph84]

I discovered new ways to recycle and reuse things when I had to go through my 89 year old neighbor's house after she passed away. I first went online and started to post things on craigslist and then found other sites like swap.com and listia to trade items for other items I really needed.

[Pat]

It always amazes me that people throw away good items that someone else can use.  I see things on the curb that can recycled or donated to the goodwill being thrown out I will take it and do ate to the goodwill myself .  Space can be an issue and not knowing if the house had bugs can some times stop me from picking up an item or two.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

How about sidewalks made from old toilets?   Less gravel mining.
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[joeldgreat]

The same thing goes to other stuffs too. Old low tech laptops which we tend to disposed or lock in the attic, can be donated to NGO's which they give to less furtunate children. Last year, my childrens old school books already accummulated to more than 50 of them and was only left in the basement. At first I entended to dispose them naturally (selling it to recycling plant), but then I heard this organization who happens to accept old (but still usable) books for them to distribute to remote schools here in our country. Of course, without any hesitation, we had donated all that bokks to them.

[ACSAPA]

I thought the recycled soap was interesting. I didn't know soap could be infected with germs because soap is what you use to kill germs on your hands. I also didn't know there was a process to clean soap so it could be sent to poor countries.  It kind of makes sense to find a use for that soap because hotel soap is only used once and then the next guest gets a new soap, so that's potentially a lot of waste.