Over the next few days I'm going to doing what I always do the last couple of days of every year - going through the house looking for no longer used things to donate to Good Will. One last tax write off before the year ends. Every year there are things that can't go to Good Will because they don't accept them or they are too cumbersome to haul there. This year, I'm going to be freecycling those things instead of letting them sit around. As we make room for all the new things we got this Christmas, I'll be finding new homes for the things we no longer use but are still very useful. None of it will go to waste. None of it will end up in a landfill.
4 comments:
I love Freecycle too!
Of course there are the problems with people promising to pick-up items and never showing. But, for the most part it really works.
Two years ago we had to move out of state with very little notice. I practially freecycled my entire house.
Great blog!
If the economics don't work, recycling efforts won't either.
As our little contribution to make this economics of recycling more appealing, http://LivePaths.com blogs about people and companies that make money selling recycled or reused items, provide green services or help us reduce our dependency on non renewable resources.
Does anybody know about this site ( http://www.earthlab.com ) ? I have seen other environmental sites with carbon calculators like yahoo and tree huggers, but I am wondering what the deal with earthlab.com is? I saw they also published a list last month of the top ten greenest cities ( http://www.efficientenergy.org/Top-Ten-Green-Cities-in-the-United-States ). Does anyone know if this site is better than the others? Fill me in!
I took their carbon foot print test and it was pretty interesting, they said that I put out 4.5 tons of carbon, does anyone know about any other tests?
I've been behind on my blogging lately, and come now to find some comments on my usually quiet blog. Gives me the incentive to make blogging regularly a priority. Thanks all for reading.
I've seen those carbon footprint calculators, but I haven't taken a survey. I'm actively working every day to be more green, and I don't want the results of a survey to discourage me because I feel overwhelmed by what I haven't been able to do yet.
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