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CD's Become Even More Retro: Play Them on Your Turntables

Now that you have spent all that time ripping your entire cd collection, what to do with the leftover discs? Of course you can recycle them, or even use them as coasters, but if you still have turnta...

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008 -- Part 2

As we continue with our look at the best tech in this year's Small Cool contest we go to Ginger's San Francisco loft where she's built a hanging shelf for her media center......

Look! Reclaimed Wood Media Center

It's official. We're in love. Please welcome our soul mate, the Fractured Fairy Tale. Made by designer Thomas Wold, the piece is a wall unit made for his client in order to house their A/V equipment...

Green Sleep: Eco-Friendly Mattresses

Did you know that your current mattress may have polyurethane and formaldehyde in it. Not only are those harmful materials for the environment, they aren't the best chemicals to be sleeping on. Unless...

Where to Dump your E-waste this Spring

We have a love/hate relationship with Spring cleaning. It's definitely nice to purge your home of unnecessary clutter (trust us, you're never going to use that CRT monitor again). But the drawback of ...

News: Recycle Through the Mail

Got a gadget you want to get rid of? The US Postal Service is launching a pilot program that will allow you to recycle small electronics and printer cartridges through the mail, for free....

Cell Phones For Soldiers

We've always got our eye out for ways to recycle our old technology. Cell Phones For Soldiers has recently been including envelopes in Amazon orders, allowing you to easily donate your old phones fo...

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iWipe Mac Toliet Paper Dispenser...

iHole: iPhone Pinhole Camera

Tired of wasteful packaging? Why not make something useful out of it?...

TakeBackMyTV.com

Here's a very real example of what's happening with our electronic junk. Not all is lost, though......

Apple Now Offers Recycling

Apple has decided to polish it's green image by offering free recycling both on-line and in stores of CPUs, iPods and cell phones; they're accepting any brand computer or cell phone, not just Macs a...

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Macramé Plant Hanger made of Recycled Ethernet Cables ...

Love Is In The Air Vinyl Silhouettes

Looking for a use for your old records? Carlos Aires has repurposed old vinyl as art in his series, "Love Is In The Air."...

Recycle Your Cell Phone and Donate to Charity

We have somehow managed to amass a collection of old cell phones that we can no longer use. Since we are going to recycle these anyways it was nice to stumble across Collective Good. ...

Tech Tip: Google a Recall

The next time a gadget or home appliance is giving you trouble, here's some sage advice: google to see if there's been a recall on the product. Why bother? Well, we don't always hear about all the ...

Computer Monitor Cat Bed

A cat will sleep almost anywhere, so we've never really understood cat beds. This Etsy seller has recycled a computer monitor into a cat bed, and throws in an old mouse as a toy. Via: Shiny Shiny...

Bird-Electron iPod Box Speaker

Looking for a cheap and easy iPod speaker? Bird-Electron has created a speaker kit that allows to reuse Apple's plastic packaging and create a simple, yet stylish, speaker....

News: Sony Offering $100 for Your Old TVs

Need to recycle your TV? Sure, your conscience and the need to declutter your home may be enough motivation, but what about $100 to spend at Sony?Sony is offering $100 to you for recycling your old t...

Convert a Broken Hard Drive Into Secret Storage

Got a broken hard drive, but don't want to pay to recycle it? Do what this guy did and turn your dead drive into a storage box......

Office Depot Recycles Your Electronics

A new recycling spot for your electronics is now as close as your local Office Depot. They've started a new Tech Recycling Program that, for a flat fee of $5, $10 or $15, will take as many acceptable...

Rag-bag

Multicolored and Green, all in one: Rag-bag is a line of messenger bags, foldable shopping bags, wallets and planner cases made of recycled plastic bags from New Delhi, India. The bags are gathered...

Carbon-Neutral Computer Update

No pretty prototype pictures to show you yet, but more info about the carbon-neutral computer has been released. The biggest news is that it will be ready to run Windows Vista; in the past, Linux h...

Hazardous Waste in Consumer Electronics

1.2 million tons of e-waste is generated in the UK every year. According to the US EPA, 250 million computers will become obsolete in the next 5 years. That is a lot of plastic and metal mixed in with...

Look! Ikea Recycling Center

Ikea "greening" may not be big news to some of you, but tucked in a corner just past the check outs at our local Ikea was a recycling center we hadn't ever seen before. The spot gives you a place to...

Good Question: Where to Recycle Hair Straightener?

At AT:Home Tech, we strive to be of good service to you, our loyal readers. elizabeth in AL asked us where to recycle her hair straightener--and we came up with an answer that works for more than jus...

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