People try to recycle, but even well-intentioned efforts are not followed through, and even if you do recycle, your gizmo may never have the afterlife you expected it to have.
The best-case scenario is to reuse and a lot of equipment can have a second life at a school or at a nonprofit organization. Your immediate family may also be interested and people find themselves reusing these things by giving them to family and friends 55 % of the time.

Do you have stuff you wish you could just get rid of but don’t want to throw them away? Well there are people out there who would love to take that stuff away; you just need to find them. Enter the Recycling communities.These non-profit community-focused resources can help connect people with usable items to give away.
Their goal is to provide a free venue where users may donate and receive unwanted items within their neighborhoods and ultimately keep useful items out of landfills.

Since valuable stuff may be on their way in to the local landfill to become garbage, they provide a method to distribute these items out to the local neighborhood. Whatever the circumstances, we all have things that may be perfectly usable but that we just don’t need or want anymore. It can be anything from barely-worn clothing from a fast-growing toddler to a half-full gallon of leftover paint from a house project.

By giving freely with no strings attached, members of these networks help instill a sense of generosity of spirit as they strengthen local community ties and promote environmental sustainability and reuse
The concept has since spread to over 75 countries, where there are thousands of local groups representing millions of members -- people helping people and "changing the world one gift at a time." As a result, they are currently keeping over 300 tons a day out of landfills! This amounts to four times the height of Mt. Everest in the past year alone, when stacked in garbage trucks!