Agency Offers a Range of Used Goods

In the market for horse manure? Looking for a deal on paint or appliances? How about electrical fixtures? You can find them in the Ventura County Materials Exchange, the use-it, don’t-lose-it catalog.

The free service is provided quarterly by the county Solid Waste Management Department to keep items that have a chance of being reused from ending up in landfills. The agency recently released its summer edition of the catalog.

The catalog, called VCMAX, contains classified ads for everything from dirt to packaging materials to computers. To get a copy or to place an ad, call (805) 654-2477 or visit the Web site at www.rain.org/~swmd/vcmax.html.