National Do Not Call Registry https://www.donotcall.gov/
A handy page from Volunteer Guide gives many helpful tips on removing yourself from direct mail and junk mail lists http://www.volunteerguide.org/minutes/service-projects/junk-mail
CDs and their jewel boxes are not recyclable through your weekly pick-up. Tips on recycling CDs and DVDs, as well as other “technotrash” can be found at http://earth911.com/recycling/electronics/cds-and-dvds/tips-for-recycling-cds-and-dvds/
While it is a is a privately owned, for-profit company, http://earth911.com/ contains recycling information for over 300 materials. Other good sites are…
http://www.backthruthefuture.com/
http://www.cdrecyclingcenter.com/
Best Buy will take your old TVs, VCRs, computers, electronics, CDs, cables, etc. The next time you go there, look for the bins inside the front door to your right as you enter and take note of all the items they accept. You don’t need 742 telephone cables, or 38 miles of coax cables from your Comcast history in your house, so please give generously to the hungry Best Buy bins.
Salvation Army http://www.salvationarmyusa.org 1 800 SATRUCK
Goodwill http://www.goodwill.org/
HOUSE OF RUTH http://www.hruth.org/
Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/prepare/location/home-family/get-kit/anatomy
Baltimore County Reuse directory: http://resources.baltimorecountymd.gov/Documents/Public_Works/solidwastemanagement/2011reusedirectory110715.pdf
Or go to http://www.maryland.gov and pick your county.
For Howard County residents http://www.co.ho.md.us/ProgramsBES.htm
A beautiful garden I visited in Japan