Pass Us the Baton…We’ll Run the Anchor Leg!
To donate your recycle and upcycle items, email us to set up a date and time for us to pick up your items.
If you have items that require payment, you can do that online with a donation. Scroll down to see our list of free items to recycle!
Re-Rags Upcycled Cloths
We turn old t-shirts and sheets (any low lint textile) into rags that can be re-used or thrown away. They are great as painting and mechanic shop cloths, but also work as re-usable kitchen towels or tissues. You can wash and re-use them if they are only lightly soiled and toss them out if they are heavily soiled. Any use you give them is more than if they had been thrown away from the start. And every time you use a Re-Rag, you aren’t using a single-use paper or plastic towel.
We donate containers of Re-Rags around Rhode Island to painters, mechanics, artists and more. Funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation.
Donate Small Boxes, Paper Towel Tubes, Used Craft Items and More to Our Junior Entrepreneurs!
Free to Recycle Through Live & Learn!
ALL Food Storage Containers
ALL Brands Razors, Blades, Packaging
ALL Electronic Devices and Accessories
Arm & Hammer Pouches
Babybel packaging
Bags, like grocery bags
Batteries
Bimbo Bakery Bags
Black + Decker Small Appliances
Brita filters and pitchers
Bubble wrap
Burt’s Bees Products
Carter’s Baby & Kid Clothing
Colgate Brushes & Packaging
Earthborn Packaging
Eos Products
Eukanuba packaging
Garnier containers, packaging
Gerber containers & packaging
Gillette Razors
GoGo squeezZ pouches
Hasbro toys
Halogen Light Bulbs
Head & Shoulders Containers
Herbal Essences Containers
Honest Kids Drink Pouches
I and Love and You packaging
Late July Packaging
Lundberg Family Farms Packaging
Open Farm Packaging
Oxyclean pouches
Royal Canin packaging
Socks, worn out but clean, any brand
Stasher Bags
Takis Bags
Tom’s of Maine Products
Vtech Toys
Weleda Packaging
Wellness Pet Food Bags
How Does Relay Recycling Help?
Like us, you may be paying attention to the world of recycling and see that it is not a well-functioning system and the items we send to be recycled are frequently thrown away in the end. So why bother trying to recycle more? Many companies partner with recycling companies like Terracycle, but only pay for the recycling when people actually box up their product packaging and send it off. The company can set the amount they’re willing to pay Terracycle (cutting off recycling after that point) and still advertise their packaging is recyclable. It is very possible that companies set up an account with Terracycle sufficient to offset a measure of recycling and then never think further about improving their packaging from the beginning. The onus shouldn’t be on the consumer to expand viable recycling, but change is often driven by the consumer. Help us send the message that we want companies to recycle their packaging, and make better packaging, less packaging. The more we send their stuff in to be recycled, the more they know we want them to create less wasteful packaging.
Why are we doing this? Well, our motto is Do What We Can Now and Adapt As We Learn More. Recycling is a complicated and vexed issue with cost and viability at the forefront of discussions. Certainly, it would be vastly better if there were one centralized system for recycling everything that can be recycled, but alas. Recycling has developed in a piecemeal fashion and has relied heavily on shipping our waste to other countries to be “recycled”. Our society will always be throwing things away, though hopefully more responsibly. Live & Learn is all in on reducing the contents of our landfills and the overflow that ends up in our rivers and oceans. Will recycling change significantly in the next decade? Almost certainly. But rather than do nothing and wait, we’ll do what we can now and adapt as we learn more.
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