don’t just recycle, freecycle!

Freecycle’s mission statement:

Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources, and eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.

Check out this great opportunity to reduce and reuse.  As a member (it’s free to join), you can post offers, wants, curb alerts, etc. to people in your immediate community.  For those of you who live in the Princeton area, here are the links for Freecycle Princeton and Mercer County Freecycle.

Source: freecycle.org

Snakey shame [read like Sean Connery].

Either an anaconda shed its skin, or the manufacturers used waaaaaaaaaay too much packing paper….

I’m inclined to believe it’s the latter.

It should be embarrassing for a company, especially in this day and age, to waste such an excessive amount of material.  The products being delivered are not fragile and certainly do not require that amount of extra packaging.  It took multiple recycling bins to house all of that excess.

home depot, my hero.

Just in case you haven’t heard, at the end of june, Home Depot launched a national initiative for recycling CFL bulbs. Here’s an excerpt from their official announcement:

This free service is the first such offering made so widely available by a retailer in the United States and offers customers additional options for making environmentally conscious decisions from purchase to disposal…In any Home Depot store, customers can simply bring in any expired, unbroken CFL bulbs, and give them to the store associate behind the returns desk. The bulbs will then be managed responsibly by an environmental management company who will coordinate CFL packaging, transportation, and recycling to maximize safety and ensure environmental compliance.

I heart you, Home Depot, and so does the environment.