This is the third in a series of four year-end recycling projects. September’s project was printer cartridges. Last month’s was cell phones. This month's is freecycling. Next month’s is computers. The 19th-century English decorative artist William Morris once said, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." And yet, inevitably, our homes seem to fill up with things that are neither useful nor beautiful. Or perhaps they were once useful,...

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