Tuesday, May 06, 2008

How to Recycle Practically Anything by Sally Deneen (E Magazine)

Don’t throw away those exercise videos and ubiquitous AOL CDs. Jim Williams wants you to mail old videotapes and CDs to him, so that more than 40 disabled staffers at his ACT Recycling in Columbia, Missouri can recycle them. And, oh, don’t toss out those used Fed-Ex envelopes or broken smoke detectors; their manufacturers take them back for recycling.

Indeed, these days, it seems that more cast-offs than ever can be recycled. No matter where you live, you can recycle a wide range of discards—aseptic juice packages, printer cartridges, ordinary batteries, iPods, PDAs, and even cell phones.


Read more, including a guide to help you figure out how to recycle things you previously thought were unrecyclable.

1 comment:

McChen said...

This is great! I gotta push the recycling 2weeker harder.