Sell or give away before throwing away. I have listed a bunch of stuff I don't particularly want on eBay it costs me nothing and often someone near by eventually finds it and wants it. I recently sold something I listed in 2017.
When I tried the ebay route, I found that my place never actually got any cleaner. All the stuff that I had decided to declutter would still sit around the apartment, taking up space all the while, while it spends months or years waiting to be sold.
Getting rid of something for free is such a quick transaction that IMO complaints about the people you're transacting with aren't really meaningful/valid.