At the beginning of the school year, I volunteered to head a recycling campaign at Ethan's school called TerraCycle. It's a very cool company started by a guy who didn't like throwing things away and wanted to find a purpose for everything that would normally sit in a landfill. They have a whole list of things they take, and recycle into new products that you can find many stores now a days. The best part of the program is that you can mail in your "trash" (they pay shipping) and they donate $0.02 per qualifying item to a charity of your choice or school of your choice.