Best form of recycling is re-use of the product in its original form.
So that brings to mind a story, and I apologize to the OP since he likely didn't start this thread to see it deteriorate into a buncha anecdotes, but it sure is fun this way. In rural Western KY in the wayback years, there was a problem with illegal dumping out in the remote county reaches so they put two huge open dumpsters out near Niagra and bulldozed a heap of dirt up against them so folks could drive up and drop stuff down if they didn't care to drive all the way to the county landfill. Eventually it became the unwritten code of rubbish etiquette that if you had something potentially of value to someone else, you'd stick it off to the side so that thrifty folks (like me...) didn't have to jump down into the dumpster to wrestle out, say, a washing machine for the motor. This eventually became the default place to go get spare parts, and the site became known as the "Niagra mall."
The conversation would go something like this. "Dern, I busted the wheel on the push-mower, we need to go to town."
"Um, maybe we should try the Niagra Mall first, been meaning to haul off this old sofa for a while anyway."
Yeah, I live in Hawaii, but I sure do miss Western KY along the Ohio River bottoms.