Simply type in a product category and city or zip code and the easy to use Earth911.org search engine pulls up a list of neighboring Earth-friendly centers to drop off everything from pesticides to appliances and paints. More than 250 items are categorized as automotive, household, lawn and garden, paper, plastics or electronics.

Some 100 million unused cell phones gather dust in drawers each year in the US recylcing them would conserve enough energy to power nearly 200.000 homes for a year. to find out how to recycle yours  visit epa.gov/cellphones.

An alternative to this is to dial their 1 800 clean up  (toll free hotline)