by Joyce Slaton posted in Products

Admit it: You have at least one outgrown car seat moldering away in a closet or the garage. Everyone does, because you paid good money for it, used it daily, and then when you didn't need it anymore, soon realized that no one wants a used car seat. Charities generally won't take them, they don't sell at yard sales, friends don't want them, and if you had thoughts of recycling them so that the plastic and metal would get reused, you soon realized that was unlikely, if not impossible. (For more on that, see BabyCenter's story Can you recycle car seats" Why that's a tough question to answer)
So what are you supposed to do with your old car seat" Just throw it in the trash" Well, yeah -- unless you live in one of the rare communities that offer a car seat recycling program, that's what experts generally advise: cut the straps so the seat can't be used again, recycle any parts you can, and dump the rest in the trash. Not many people are comfortable doing that, and so the car seats in garages continue to wait for their final destination.
But if you live near a Target, you have another option: Target is teaming up with nationwide recycling company TerraCycle to launch a massive -- and unprecedented -- car seat recycling program. Bring in your old car seat(s) (you can bring 4 per day!) from April 17-30, and you'll get a coupon for 20 percent off any car seat purchase, in-store or online. You can use the coupon until May 31, 2017....