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Why Buy? It's Greener to Borrow
John Platt, January 18, 2012
NeighborGoods lets you borrow, lend or rent things from the people near you.
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7 Things to do with Shredded Paper
John Platt, November 07, 2011
As the bucket beneath my shredder quickly filled, I began to wonder: what am I going to do with all of these shreddings? I don't have to put them in the landfill, do I?
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Should You Recycle That Plastic Bottle?
John Platt, January 11, 2011
Reduce, reuse, recycle... we all know that we should use fewer plastic bottles, and recycle the ones we do use, but is that really reducing the greenhouse impact of the bottles themselves? According to one new study, the answer isn't cut-and-dried.
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Target Wants to Recyle Your Old Electronics
John Platt, April 15, 2010
Looking for a place to take your old electronics for responsible recycling? Think Target. The retail giant has rolled out a major new recycling program in all of its 1,700 stores, and that can only spell good things.
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Got an Old Cellphone? Make Sure It Gets Refurbished and Reused
John Platt, January 26, 2010
Cell phone providers make it very easy for us to upgrade our phones, and in fact, about half of mobile users do replace our phones every year. But what happens to all of those old phones? According to a recent survey by ABI Research, 92% of old phones end up landfills, even though most of those phones have a lot of life left in them.
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April 21, 2012
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