ReUse - Donation Options
Click on underlined titles below to go to the organizations' respective websites for details. Or hire the Dynamic Duo to help you get things you don't want into the hands of people who will be happy to use them! This list is just a sampling of the many places that will welcome all kinds of items.
Home Sweet Home One of our favorites! This org connects donated furniture and household items with clients from their partner non-profits. The mission of Home Sweet Home is to give under-served families a sense of pride and to improve the quality of their lives by providing basic household furnishings.
St. Louis HELP: Health Equipment Lending Program collects donations of home medical equipment such as manual wheelchairs, canes, crutches, walkers, shower chairs, etc. in like new or gently used condition, and makes it available at no cost to people in need.
Habitat for Humanity's ReStores help keep reusable household items such as larger appliances, countertops, doors, and many other kinds of building materials from area landfills. We have ReStores in the City of St. Louis, Des Peres, St. Peters, and Crystal City, Missouri as well as Collinsville, Illinois. (Many others listed at their website.)
ReFab St. Louis "promotes the collective and creative re-use of our built environment. This mission is sustained by deconstructing buildings otherwise slated for demolition, retraining community members for careers in green industry, and refabricating building materials."
St. Louis Teachers’ Recycle Center, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping creative materials and reusable resources out of landfills and putting them in the hands of children, teachers, artists and others for creative and intellectual development. Based in Ballwin, MO.
Leftovers, Etc. Repurpose & Reuse similar to the above, based in Woodson Terrace, not far from the St. Louis airport.
City Sewing Room in St. Louis, and Sew Hope in Florissant are both non-profit organizations with similar missions to support a broad community of sewers, quilters and crafters. They will usually accept donations of sewing machines, fabric, notions and trims, patterns and sewing-related items.
ReCycling Unusual Items
Household Hazardous Waste find a list of facilities in Missouri that accept household hazardous waste. There is a list of sites, with links to what each location will accept at this page.
E-Cycle Missouri by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources: find a list of electronics recyclers where you can generally take "anything with a cord." And for info on how to manage many other things, go visit this page.
Midwest Recycling Center operates many electronics recycling drop off events in the greater St. Louis area.
The City of St. Louis has a detailed list of places one can recycle a wide things "beyond the blue bin" throughout the region.