Over at Make GREEN Come True they have a list of three surprising things that can be recycled:

1. Shoes: Nike’s Reuse-a-Shoe Program will turn old athletic shoes into new playgrounds and basketball courts. They do also point out that if the shoes still have some life left in them, then donating them so somebody can use them as shoes is probably a better idea.

2. Glasses: Not the kind you drink out of (although those can also be recycled), but the kind you wear to improve your vision, or just to look cool (sunglasses). Make GREEN Come True gives a couple of places where you can donate old glasses so that they can be reused (so, technically, this is not recycling, but we’ll let them off since it is better).

3. Batteries: This one shouldn’t have been a surprise really by now. At the very least, I hope most people now know not to throw them into the landfill (via their household waste). Many places now take used batteries back for recycling.

I have three more surprising things that can be recycled:

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