Donate & Reuse

Donate & Reuse

• Donate Usable Furniture - The Cleveland Furniture Bank accepts donations of gently used furniture. They will pick up items at no cost to the donor. Two thirds of all the furniture collected is given to those in need. The other third is sold to help underwrite the cost of running the Cleveland Furniture Bank. Call 216.459.2265 or visit http://www.clevelandfurniturebank.org for more details.

• Construction & Remodel Materials - Donate Your Old Usable Windows, Doors, Cabinets, Vanities, Lighting Fixtures, Sinks, Appliances, Counter Tops, Toilets, Showers, Tubs, Tools, Lumber, Flooring and more – These items can be dropped off at Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity ReStore located at 2110 W. 110^th St., Cleveland, OH 44102 (between Western and Berea Rds). Call 216-429-3631 ext. 238 for hours and details. Most donations are tax deductible. Insist that your contractor salvage usable items from your remodel and donate them to reduce disposal charges on your project. Pickup of donated items is available upon request. Visit http://www.clevelandhabitat.org/Restore/ for more detail.

• Buy and Sell used items on free sites like http://cleveland.craigslist.org for general products or http://www.diggerslist.com for building products. Also utilize local thrift stores and other resale shops (when appropriate) to support reuse of existing products.

• Donate Clothes and Household Items –

-to Simple Recycling, who now only collect from your doorstep when you call instead of their previous curbside program. Donate textiles and small usable household items. To schedule a free home pickup go to https://simplerecycling.com/. Note that you no longer need Simple Recycling bags! Simply fill any bags or boxes, label them and place them outside your front door!

-to Goodwill at http://locator.goodwill.org/
-to Salvation Army at http://www.satruck.org/donate-goods,
-to West Side Catholic Center at http://www.helpcleveland.org
-to United Way Donation Locator at http://www.211cleveland.org/ (click on Donations and Volunteering).

• Donate Used Clothes and Shoes--to Planet Aid at www.planetaid.org

• Donate Packaging Peanuts – to the UPS Store located at 30628 Detroit Rd in Westlake on the corner of Bradley and Detroit Roads. The store is located in Savanah Commons. Additionally, you may donate your packaging peanuts to the UPS store located at 25935 Detroit Rd., just west of Columbia Rd. in a small shopping plaza on the south side of the street. Other shipping stores may also accept packaging peanuts.

• Donate Books and Magazines - The Bay Village Library located just South of Wolf Rd. on Cahoon Rd may still collect used books. Contact them directly to confirm after reading these general rules from the Cuyahoga County Public Library website: http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Donate/Used-Booksale-Donations.aspx .

• Buy Recycled - When making purchases, consider products made with recycled materials.

• Reuse Trees - If you are cutting down a tree in your yard, it may be able to be locally milled into usable wood. Metro Hardwoods is an urban sawmill specializing in turning city trees into lumber. It is located in West Cleveland near the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. Check out their website for more information on turning your cut tree into lumber: http://www.metro-hardwoods.com/. Contact Metro Hardwood for a list of tree contractors willing to haul the cut tree to their mill.

• Medical Equipment Loan - With Medicare not always paying for health equipment that you may need, residents of Bay Village are able to borrow donated medical equipment while recuperating from surgery or an injury at no charge. Available equipment includes wheelchairs, walkers, canes, shower benches, etc.. Call 899-3442 for more information or to request or donate equipment. DONATIONS NEEDED. Our medical equipment loan program is very popular. So popular that we are now requesting donations of newer, light-weight wheelchairs or transport chairs so we can keep up with the demand.

• Plastic Landscape Pots - When purchasing trees and shrubs for your property, check with the nursery to see if they accept their planting containers back for reuse. We know that Petitti's Garden Centers in Avon accepts their containers for reuse and they will also recycle containers from other nurseries if you drop them off in their reuse and recycling bin. That bin is located on the West end of the building by the mulch and dirt loading area. Please note that containers not originating from their nursery will not be reused, but instead recycled by a third party into a lower quality product. It is preferable to return the containers to the nursery where you purchased the plants so that they can be reused.

What can I do with my Old Trash Cans?

• A Habitat for Humanity Drop Off is scheduled for 9AM to 5 PM at the Bay Village Police Department Parking Lot on Saturday, September 17, 2011.

• Cans may also be dropped off anytime during store hours at Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity's ReStore located at 2110 W. 110th St., Cleveland, OH 44102 (between Western and Berea Rds). Exit at W. 117 if driving from Bay Village on I90 East. Seehttp://www.clevelandhabitat.org/Restore/ or call 216-429-3631 ext. 238 for hours and details. Most donations are tax deductible. The cans are sold by Habitat to help fund their mission of eliminating poverty housing in Cleveland.

• • Contact Nancy Richey at 440-617-7300 or nancy.richey@bayschoolsohio.org if you wish to donate