Specific Organizations With Charity Causes And Donation Needs
(clothing, bedding, books, educational materials, children’s items, pet items, food, etc)

Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center: Furniture, appliances, and vehicles

Nueva Vista Community Resources: Vehicles and other goods

Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries: Books, CDs, DVDs, games, puzzles, audiobooks, and maps

Catholic Charities: Cars, trucks, RVs, motorcycles, and boats. Running or not. Pick up available

SPCA Animal Shelter: Unexpired pet food and other pet items, and vehicles

Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter: Pet items, and supplies like washcloths, batteries, blankets

Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County: Small-scale produce, and non-perishable items

Warming Center Program: Blankets, clothing, jackets, rain gear

Food Not Bombs: Blankets, tarps, buckets, pots, toiletries, clothing, non-perishable food items

Homeless Garden Project: Garden and farm equipment and tools, clothes, household items, backpacks, bikes

LANDFILL / RECYCLING FACILITIES

Sanitary landfill, general recycling, mattress recycling, carpet recycling, yard waste, hazardous waste, composting

City of Santa Cruz Dimeo Lane Resource Recovery Facility

County of Santa Cruz Buena Vista Location

Terracycle: A mail-in recycling program that has teamed up with certain brands to offer free recycling services for items that aren’t traditionally curbside recyclable. Some bigger brands include Burts Bees, Febreze, Gillette, etc.

TEXTILE RECYCLING

Goodwill

H & M

Thred Up: They mail you a bag to fill up and send back to them. They either buy clothes from you to re-sell, or they recycle the rest.

SECURE DOCUMENT SHREDDING

Santa Cruz Records Management Inc: Drive-through service, medium to large quantities of documents, customers witness documents being shredded, machinery operates on solar power

Office/Shipping Stores (small quantity of documents)

Staples

All UPS Stores

All FedEx Office Stores