City of Sunnyvale

Do you have unwanted chairs, desks, file cabinets or computers? What about surplus letterhead, envelopes, binders, packaging material or manufacturing discards? You can often keep these materials out of the garbage (thereby reducing your garbage service fees!) and put those materials to good use. To find out how, consider the following commercial supply & equipment reuse opportunities:

Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT), winner of a 2001 Environmental Achievement Award, is a non-profit organization that stores unneeded equipment and materials from businesses and makes them available for reuse to its members, which include teachers and community groups. Thanks to the support of local businesses, over 200,000 cubic feet of unneeded items are kept out of the landfill every year.
CalMAX is a free classified listing service for potentially reusable business discards. Your business could reduce its disposal costs by placing free ads on-line to find companies that are looking for material you've traditionally discarded. You can also cut manufacturing or purchasing costs by searching the "available" ads for low cost feedstock, used equipment, and supplies. Find out how organizations have used CalMAX to help them realize cost savings.
Excess Access is an on-line donating service that matches business and household items and materials with wish lists of nearby nonprofits and recyclers that can provide pick-ups. Fee for service.
Recycle for Breast Cancer accepts new or unused copier, printer, and fax supplies. Request a prepaid shipping label online.
Reuse Resources (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.) includes a list of local organizations that will accept materials such as furniture and small appliances for reuse.
The StopWaste Partnership offers case studies and other information on the benefits of reusable transport packaging (i.e. pallets, totes and bins) to the business community.