Recycling Archive

  • Let your old mobile or iPod buy a round of drinks or even a night out – but don’t get caught out by the new checking process!

    Posted on September 30, 2010 | No Comments
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Case-Mate’s fully customizable and recyclable iPhone case

    Case-Mate’s fully customizable and recyclable iPhone case

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Seriously, this case offers a lot for next to nothing. Not only can you bedazzle it anyway you want, but when you’re done with it, just throw it in with your recycling. Plus it’s only $0.99 or 10 for $8. But the fun doesn’t stop there. We all know that the iPhone is a mugger beacon. [...]

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