The city says, in part, that it's a victim of its own success. Residents pride themselves on aggressively recycling and composting, so they're switching to smaller, cheaper trash cans - the only collection for which the city charges. [more]
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If you have small consumer electronics cluttering up a drawer or cupboard in your home, you can send them off to be recycled at no charge through the USPS in these postage-paid mailers. From the USPS website: [more]
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Wait - before you toss that into the garbage, can it be recycled? Many things obviously can in traditional ways, but an artist often sees beyond the obvious. With a creative eye and artful touch, art can be created with nearly any medium. Innovativ [more]
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When a school or office building thinks about distributed energy, it usually means solar panels propped up on a roof.
A small company called IST Energy has another vision: it's developed a shipping container-size contraption that turns your buildin [more]
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Boxcycle attempts to solve 2 problems- buying boxes is expensive, and businesses have tons of old boxes that they have to pay to recycle. It's an online matchup service that lets businesses sell their old boxes to those who need them. "BoxCycle, a S [more]
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[answer in the comments] NYT reports on a study just done revealing the best and worst recyclers. Rather than have you guess on the worst, let's applaud the positive. Who recycles the most? [more]
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