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APRIL 2017 | NAILS MAGAZINE | 81 Crayons. The stubs of crayons left behind by clients' children can be recycled into new hand-crafted crayons at www.crazycrayons.com. Eyeglasses and sunglasses. Help others while keeping glasses and sunglasses out of the landfill. OneSight (www. onesight.org) recycles the glasses into raw materials, then uses the funds to support their clinics where they offer 100% new eyewear to people in need. This allows them to fill the exact prescription needed, which cannot always be done when dispensing previously prescribed lenses. Furniture. No matter how odd or use-specific furniture is, there is someone out there who wants it. Before shipping it to the landfill, consider listing it on your local Freecycle site (www.freecycle.org) or call and see if you're your local beauty school can use it. Hair clippings. If you have stylists in the salon cutting hair, clippings can be donated to the Clean Wave Program (www.matteroftrust.org/297/clean-wave-program). Clippings and other waste fibers are turned into mats used in efforts to clean up oil spills and booms to protect storm drains. Holiday cards. Cards are still a big part of expressing joy, sympathy, well-wishes, or holiday greetings, and those cards can enjoy a second life in the Recycled Card Program at the St. Jude's Ranch. They accept all-occasion cards, except for Hallmark, Disney, or American brands. Check the website at www.stjudesranch.org for specific mailing instructions. For more than 30 years, they have been teaching entrepreneurship skills through the program. Holiday lights. You can donate old strings of holiday lights for recycling at www.holidayleds.com/christmas-light- recycling-program.aspx and get rewarded with a 15% off coupon for energy efficient LED lights. This keeps PVC, glass, and copper wire out of landfills. Keurig coffee cups and plastics. Preserve Products turns Keurig (Vue, K-Mug, and K-Carafe) pods stamped with #5 into useful products such as toothbrushes, kitchenware, totes, and tabletop items. Check out www.preserveproducts. com for mailing instructions. Keys. Approximately 50 keys make a pound, and at www. keyforhope.org donated keys provide funds for food pantries. Spreading the word via Facebook, they help organizers set up key drives. Contact them to find out how to get their key kit. Mirrors. While mirrors contain chemicals that make them difficult to recycle, they can still be reused. Consider offering your unwanted mirror on your local www.freecycle. org site. Packing peanuts. Call the Peanut Hotline at (800) 828-2214 or visit www.loosefillpackaging.com to find a collection site near you. Loose fill polystyrene packaging, commonly known as packing peanuts, contains between 25% and 100% recycled content and over 30% is reused. Those are serious gains since loose fill was introduced after WWII. Printer ink cartridges. Most national chain office supplies such as Staples and Office Depot/OfficeMax will reward customers who recycle printer ink cartridges. What could be better than recycling and getting a cash discount on future ink supplies? Check out the website of your favorite store. Sneakers. Running shoes in reasonably good shape can be reused by donating them to www.oneworldrunning.com, where they are sorted, washed, and distributed to those in need. Shoes of any brand that are past their prime can be donated to the Nike Reuse-a-shoe program, where they are recycled into NikeGrind court surfaces or Flyknit products. Visit www.nike.com for drop off locations or ask at your nearest store. Technotrash. GreenDisk (www.greendisk.com) will dispose of all of the spent supplies and obsolete accessories related to your computer, such as CDs, hard drives, rechargeable batteries, and zip disks. The company not only helps streamline recycling, but it also helps protect consumer privacy at the same time by erasing all data on the media submitted. There is a charge for services. Wine corks. ReCork (www.recork.org) recycles the corks from wine bottles and turns them into cool products such as traction pads for surfboards and yoga blocks. They provide prepaid shipping labels for minimum shipments of 15 pounds and even provide a cool collection box to encourage clients to drop off their corks. > Green Circle Salons certifies participating salons and provides support as they recycle much of the salon's waste. Founder Shane Price claims to help salons cut their carbon footprint by 95%. Contact them at info@ greencirclesalons.ca to find out how to get Green Circle certified. > Waste management company g2 revolution makes it easy for salons to recycle everything from metal manicure tools to aluminum tubes and brushes. That's in addition to all plastics, glass, aluminum, etc. With prices that start as low as $36.95 (including a return label), they will send a salon recycling box that is even suitable for client areas. To learn more, go to www.g2rev.com > Not sure how to recycle something? The website www.earth911.com has a database of over 350 materials and 100,000 listings, searchable by zip code. RECYCLING RESOURCES