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If you have upgraded your furnishings, or maybe you have to downsize, you are probably thinking of how to best get rid of old furniture pieces without hauling them around yourself. Although some people do end up taking furniture to the curb and placing a “Free” sign on them, more often than not most homeowners usually end up taking their old things to the city or county landfill.

But there are other ways of getting rid of them.

REPURPOSE YOUR FURNITURE

Okay, so maybe you don’t want to bother with the effort of trying to sell or even give away your old furniture. In fact, maybe you really don’t want to get rid of your furniture item, but you had to replace it with something new. No worries! A little creativity and imagination can be applied to just about any furniture piece to produce something new. You can reuse or repurpose your well-loved items.

​Old wooden chairs can become nightstands. An old bookshelf can be transformed into a display case. A worn-out sofa can serve well in a garage “game room” or even on the back patio or deck. Repurposing your old furniture is only limited by what you can think of.

CAN FURNITURE BE RECYCLED?

When it comes to disposing of furniture recycle, reuse, reduce certainly applies. As our children know well these three terms are often used when talking about waste. Recycling is using trash to remake new goods that can be sold again. reusing is finding a new way to use trash so that we don’t have to throw it out, and reducing is cutting back on the amount of trash we make.

​And recycling is definitely a viable option when you need to get rid of your old pieces. Most of the time!

​Because there can be questionable materials inside of some furniture pieces, which we address at length in the next section, recycling is not always an option. But the good news is that most furniture can be recycled most of the time.

So, why should you consider recycling your furniture and what are the benefits?

• Recycling conserves finite natural resources, which is critical as the population grows
• Recycling conserves up to 95% of the freshwater used to process many materials
• Recycling prevents waste from going into oceans
• Protects forests which help to reduce CO2 emissions
• Reduces use of fossil fuel energy, which reduces CO2 emissions

​Whether it’s simply a matter of needing to downsize and get rid of some furniture, or you have to replace household items like old furniture, recycling these pieces is a great option. In addition, things break, wear out, or unusable.

​The default choice is to simply toss things out. But adding to the municipal waste stream and the local landfill isn’t really the best choice.

​With a little planning and forethought, much of our old household or office furniture can be utilized or disposed of in other ways, like being sent to a recycle center.