Harmony works for GrowNYC, an organization that has started a huge city-wide composting and textile reycling operation so that apartment dwellers all over the five boroughs* can bring their food scraps and leftovers to be turned into soil, rather than dropped into a landfill where lack of air might mean they don't decompose for decades.
GrowNYC also collects clothing, towels, old sheets, rags, shoes. Usable clothing gets sold, and other materials get recycled into filling for car seats, insulation, and other useful stuff -- and again, they stay out of the landfill.
Here's the list of locations where you can drop off compost and textiles. Hint on the compost: store it in the freezer. Won't stink, and also easier to transport when you're ready to take it to your neighborhood drop-off location.
The page also lists resources for recycling CFLs, cell phones, and other things you might be finished with, but that might be re-usable or recyclable. Whenever you're about to throw something in the trash -- think for a minute: can it be recycled or reused?
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* Actually, it doesn't look as though they have any locations in the Bronx. Hope that's coming soon.
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