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Posts tagged “e-waste”

Gazelle: Recycle Your Electronics For Cash

When it comes to old electronics, the usual options are: donate it (great idea but we paid a lot of money for this); recycle it (it's only a few years old, and we'd like to get some money for it); or...

Good To Know: Electronics Recycling Websites
Get Cash For Your Trash!

Broken iPod, old phone, busted computer. Most electronics die sooner or later. We all know you shouldn't just throw them in the trash, and this is especially true now that there are so many resourc...

TerraCycle Turns Old Computers and Printers into Flower Pots

We're still slugging our way through January, but we can't wait for Spring, when we can start gardening again. We have a yard that's filled with concrete unfortunately, so we do all our gardening in ...

The Greenpeace Guide to Who's Being Green

The latest version of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics (they do one every year) lets us know which electronics manufacturers are being kind to the earth and which ones could care less. Thin...

What Do You Do With Your Obsolete Tech?

On the way back from lunch yesterday I found this retro-tastic piece of obsolete technology, an 8 track player, sitting curbside all forlorn and hoping to escape the landfill. Of course, I had to take...

Walk-in and Drop Off Recycling at Best Buy

We've reported before about where to recycle your E-waste a few times, including mention of Best Buy's recycling drop-off kiosks. But now the consumer electronics giant is allowing customers to bring ...

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 ...