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The 2025 guide to recycling electronics, beauty empties, and clothing

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U.S. generates around 6.9 million tons of e-waste each year , but less than 18 percent of it is recycled properly.

E-Waste is a doozy of a rabbit hole. Once you hone in on a certain category, there's usually a super straightforward answer for how to recycle said items.

Getting rid of hard-to-recycle stuff isn't so mysterious.

Call2recycle is a nationwide battery recycling program that offers free battery recycling at partnering stores like The Home Depot , Lowe's , and Staples .

Give Back Box is a non-profit that partners with a slew of small charities from which you can choose to send your items.

ReGirlfriend is an amazingly easy mail-in garment recycling program.

Ulta and Sephora have partnered with Pact Collective to offer recycling bins for your empties.

Nordstrom has a partnership with TerraCycle , offering a similar in-store drop-off option for beauty packaging.

Squeeze tubes of foundation or primer and pressed eyeshadow, blush, and highlighter are accepted if they're open but barely used.

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