Amazon.Com Has A Gadget Trade-In Page

POSTED BY on May 20 under Recycling

I’m applauding the idea of Amazon.Com to set up a trading page. The site’s newest feature is currently on its Beta phase and it first started with people trading in their old books, video games, and DVDs with other users of the site. This time, they’ve started accepting trade-ins for electronics like cameras and cellphones. [...]

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Things To Do With Gift Wrappers Post-Holiday

POSTED BY on Dec 23 under Recycling

You’ve opened and unwrapped your gifts. You’ve collected all of the wrappers for recycling, as we’ve suggested. So what do you actually do with them after the holidays? We’ve got some nifty suggestions below: Use them as book covers. If you have old books lying around, use the gift wrappers to cover and protect it. [...]

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Getting Away With Re-Gifting

POSTED BY on Dec 18 under Recycling

A friend of mine was so appalled to tell me the other day that her stepmom has re-gifted her with a beauty product that was obviously used. It had about 10% of it already gone from the bottle. While we advocate re-gifting, there is a right way of doing this without being tacky. What items [...]

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Eco Pots

POSTED BY on Jul 28 under Eco-friendly

Can you imagine having your old books as your pot for your plants? It may seem weird at first, but it is recycling and helping the environment. Sceglier Bio has created a creative way to recycle your books by not just piling them in some old cabinet. The new eco-way of utilizing books after it [...]