Comments on: Confessions of an E-Waste Recycleaholic http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/ Turning the Planet Green, One Conversation at a Time Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CarlyS http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-12941 CarlyS Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:37:12 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-12941 I appreciate that you explain how "recycling" doesn't have to mean sending materials to the recycler. If we can find second or even third-hand uses for materials it is much better than sending them off to be recycled because we are still cutting down on energy and material consumption. In short, use every thing in every way you can think of before sending it off to be recycled. Thanks for the great post! Carly Shea Green <a href="http://www.inin.com/ProductSolutions/Pages/Enterprise-IP-Telephony.aspx">Interactive Intelligence</a> I appreciate that you explain how “recycling” doesn’t have to mean sending materials to the recycler. If we can find second or even third-hand uses for materials it is much better than sending them off to be recycled because we are still cutting down on energy and material consumption. In short, use every thing in every way you can think of before sending it off to be recycled. Thanks for the great post!
Carly Shea
Green Interactive Intelligence

]]> By: Green Talk http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-7866 Green Talk Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:04:14 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-7866 Mallory, now I don't feel alone! Your welcome about the compliment about your blog. It's fun. Anna Mallory, now I don’t feel alone! Your welcome about the compliment about your blog. It’s fun. Anna

]]> By: Mallory @ MissMalaprop http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-7863 Mallory @ MissMalaprop Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:03:55 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-7863 This makes me feel not so crazy for keeping a ton of recycling stations set up at work, and bringing things home to recycle them, since we have no actual recycling program at work! On the e-waste recycling front, we've got at least 3 broken laptops from my boyfriend's days in IT that we still have yet to figure out quite what to do with. He keeps promising to bring them to some other computer guys he knows to see if they want them, but I'm ready for some recycling solution to happen and have them leave the house! (P.S. Thanks for the kind words about my blog on <a href="http://www.glueandglitter.com/main/2010/01/12/green-crafty-reading-list/">that post at Glue & Glitter!</a>) This makes me feel not so crazy for keeping a ton of recycling stations set up at work, and bringing things home to recycle them, since we have no actual recycling program at work! On the e-waste recycling front, we’ve got at least 3 broken laptops from my boyfriend’s days in IT that we still have yet to figure out quite what to do with. He keeps promising to bring them to some other computer guys he knows to see if they want them, but I’m ready for some recycling solution to happen and have them leave the house!

(P.S. Thanks for the kind words about my blog on that post at Glue & Glitter!)

]]> By: The Green Cat http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-7832 The Green Cat Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:28:14 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-7832 Anna: Next time there are items up on the shelf I'll snap a photo. It's erratic--depends on when folks clean out their offices :) Just yesterday I saved a very dirty pashmina scarf from the trash. No one wanted it because it was stained and I was afraid it would get tossed so I took it home and washed it. I plan to donate it to Goodwill or send it off to textiles recycling if the stains don't come out. .-= The Green Cat´s last blog ..<a href="http://itsagreengreengreengreenworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/flat.html">Flat!</a> =-. Anna:

Next time there are items up on the shelf I’ll snap a photo. It’s erratic–depends on when folks clean out their offices :) Just yesterday I saved a very dirty pashmina scarf from the trash. No one wanted it because it was stained and I was afraid it would get tossed so I took it home and washed it. I plan to donate it to Goodwill or send it off to textiles recycling if the stains don’t come out.
.-= The Green Cat´s last blog ..Flat! =-.

]]> By: Green Talk http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-7828 Green Talk Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:06:05 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-7828 Green Cat, we could be BFFs! I love that you swoop in and make sure things get recycled at the end of the day. What a cool office that you have with a mini Freecycle shelf in your kitchen. Everyone should read your comment and incorporate something like this. Can you shoot me a picture so I can post it? Anna Green Cat, we could be BFFs! I love that you swoop in and make sure things get recycled at the end of the day. What a cool office that you have with a mini Freecycle shelf in your kitchen. Everyone should read your comment and incorporate something like this. Can you shoot me a picture so I can post it? Anna

]]> By: The Green Cat http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-7825 The Green Cat Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:08:03 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-7825 Thanks for sharing this. Mark at 3RLiving in Brooklyn sometimes shares what gets tossed in his store's greendisk bin on his blog. I find it fascinating. Around my office I'm known as the chick who won't throw anything out. We've got a shelf in the kitchen where folks can leave things to give away (like our own personal Freecycle) but I always swoop in at the end of the day before things can get trashed so I can take them for recycling or reuse. Thanks for sharing this. Mark at 3RLiving in Brooklyn sometimes shares what gets tossed in his store’s greendisk bin on his blog. I find it fascinating.

Around my office I’m known as the chick who won’t throw anything out. We’ve got a shelf in the kitchen where folks can leave things to give away (like our own personal Freecycle) but I always swoop in at the end of the day before things can get trashed so I can take them for recycling or reuse.

]]> By: Green Talk http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-7819 Green Talk Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:57:18 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-7819 Luc J, it is really fun to see what is in the box. One day someone left me a new box of CD-Rs. Now that is someone going green. Probably downloading on their ipod vs CDs! Don't you love technology? Anna Luc J, it is really fun to see what is in the box. One day someone left me a new box of CD-Rs. Now that is someone going green. Probably downloading on their ipod vs CDs! Don’t you love technology? Anna

]]> By: Luc J http://www.green-talk.com/2010/01/19/confessions-of-an-e-waste-recycleaholic/#comment-7816 Luc J Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:05:38 +0000 http://www.green-talk.com/?p=4051#comment-7816 Nice idea! I can imagine you waiting to see what the harvest will be this time. A surprise a day.... Nice idea! I can imagine you waiting to see what the harvest will be this time. A surprise a day….

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