Recycling Archive

  • DIY: Convert a disposable camera into a slave flash

    DIY: Convert a disposable camera into a slave flash

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Buying a flash unit can be expensive, but here's a cheapskate alternative that will do the job, at least for a while. Plus, you're recycling a disposable camera into something reusable, and saving all those bits from the landfill. Besides, once you use all of the flash out of one disposable camera, you can always build another one to replace it, and recycle the first one.

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  • ex-Sprint and Radio Shack execs try to save the world with eRecyclingCorps

    ex-Sprint and Radio Shack execs try to save the world with eRecyclingCorps

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    65,000 tons of mobile phone e-waste are generated every year. The bad news is, only 1% of consumers choose to recycle their headsets when they upgrade. eRecyclingCorps is working with carriers to integrate the recycling process into the POS sale system at the retail store. eRecyclingCorps plans on working with the carriers to offer customer [...]

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  • Recycling may save, but trash can power your home

    Recycling may save, but trash can power your home

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    If you live in Spain that is. University of Zaragoza researchers have been looking into using various forms of solid waste to generate electricity for the nation, up to as much as 7%. What is it lately with all this decaying matter being useful? The process involves all sorts of big, scientific sounding words like incineration, [...]

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  • Developing countries, in race out of poverty, will produce more E-Waste

    Developing countries, in race out of poverty, will produce more E-Waste

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    UN Under-Secretary-General Achim Steiner gave a talk at an environment protection conference in Bali describing a growing problem among developing nations: e-waste. While places like China and India already have their own problems with informal e-waste recycling, the UN expects to see the same intractable problems surface in Africa and Latin America while levels of [...]

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  • List of most-recycled phones has two RAZRs at the top, possibly being melted right into CLIQ molds

    List of most-recycled phones has two RAZRs at the top, possibly being melted right into CLIQ molds

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember back when RAZRs were the most amazing thing you'd ever seen and they ran like $400 on a two-year contract? Yeah, it feels like an eternity and a half ago -- and most owners seem to feel that way, too, because they're being recycled en masse these days. Phone recycling specialist ReCellular has released its list of the ten most-recycled handsets of the year, and by 2009 standards, there really aren't any surprises -- the chart reads like a directory of forgettable has-been dumbphones with the possible exception, of course, of the industry-changing RAZRs up top. It'll be interesting to see if or when the first smartphones break the top ten -- what do you think, a Treo or two?

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  • Dell and Goodwill add more free computer recycling drop off sites

    Dell and Goodwill add more free computer recycling drop off sites

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Ever tried to get rid of an old, sack o’ crap computer? It's not as easy as it sounds. You can't just throw it in the garbage (legally), charitable organizations have finally realized that it takes more time and effort than it's worth to refurbish a 486 DX2/66 machine that nobody’s going to use anyway, and dumping the computer at your municipal recycling center often costs a pretty penny.

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