This week’s Do One Thing is all about recycling. Each state and city has their own recycling laws, so it is very important that you find out what can and cannot be recycled where you live. Check to see if your recycling can be mixed together, what kinds of plastic can be recycled (check out [...]
Think that recycling those electronics means they just “go away” and no one has to deal with them anymore? Think again, unfortunately. From the toxic mess that they can leave in far away lands to the sensitive data that is found on the millions of computers thrown away each year, our e-waste is leaving a [...]
Before you take the easy (and potentially dangerous) way out and just throw away your unused/old gadgets (at least recycle!), you might want to check out Gazelle.com and see if you can get any cash for it instead. Gazelle recycles, and most of the time pays you for, your old iPods, computers, iPhones, Blackberry’s, digital [...]
I just downloaded iRecycle to my iPhone and wow – so cool. You enter your location and what you need to recycle, and the application tells you the locations nearby that will take your stuff off your hands. Granted, there aren’t many places here where I live (try, none), but in most major cities that [...]
