Tag: RECYCLING

Christmas is coming, and you're about to have a ton of time off. Some of that time will be spent energetically tearing apart beautifully-wrapped gifts, and eating food is certainly next on the list of priorities. Obviously you have to play with your new gifts (or put on your new socks), but after that... after the postprandial sofa-surfing grunts and burps and farts... well, there isn't a whole ...

You're paying way too much for moving boxes. At least, that's the premise behind BoxCycle, a site that lets you buy and sell boxes cheaply to others in your area. If you've got a business that buys more boxes than it needs, list them for sale, and a buyer will come pick them up. If you're moving and you need to buy boxes, just put in your zip code and pick some up near you. BoxCycle isn't quite ...

OK, this isn't exactly a download. But all that software has to run on something, right? Greenpeace has released their first ever global "e-waste" scorecard that ranks computer and electronics manufacturers in terms of how much effort they are putting into shrinking their environmental toxin profiles, and how successful they're being. Many people probably don't realize it, but most consumer ...