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Costco Trade-In & Recycle Program
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Must be a Costco member. Trade In or Recycle your old electronic equipment. You can use the online Value Estimator to display your potential trade-in value or send an item in for direct recycle. For PCs, LCD Monitors, Digital Cameras, Camcorders, Game Systems & MP3 Players. Standard shipping via UPS Ground is free. Please allow up to 4 weeks after receipt of your trade-in item for delivery of your Costco Cash Card.
www.costco.com
Earth 911
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Find a Recycling or Re-Use Location near you.
earth911.org
Earth Share
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Nationwide network of the country's most respected environmental and conservation organizations. Earth Share's program gives working people the easiest and best opportunity to support environmental stewardship through payroll contribution at the workplace.
www.earthshare.org
Eco-Cycle
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Working to build zero-waste communities with tips and resources for reducing, reusing, and recycling.
www.ecocycle.org
eCycling -- US EPA
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Find out where you can donate or recycle old computers and other electronics.
www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm
Electronics TakeBack Coalition
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Promotes green design and responsible recycling in the electronics industry and can help you find a recycler to take your discarded electronics.
www.computertakeback.com
foldschool - cardboard furniture
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Downloadable patterns for cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you -- a great way to reuse cardboard.
foldschool.com
Gigoit
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Donate and receive reusable items in your community.
www.gigoit.org
Goodwill Industries International
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The clothing and household goods you donate are sold in over 2,100 Goodwill retail stores and on their Internet auction site. The revenues fund job training and other services to prepare people for job success.
www.goodwill.org
GreenDisk Electronics Recycling Services
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Responsibly and securely dispose of all your computer-related waste, spent supplies and obsolete accessories.
www.greendisk.com
How can I recycle this?
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A British site that offers creative ideas for reusing all kinds of items.
www.recyclethis.co.uk
Instructables
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User-submitted do-it-yourself projects that often reuse objects you already have.
www.instructables.com
Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers with Junkmarket Style by Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer
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One person's trash is another's treasure. That's a fact of life that the Junkmarket gals know only too well. Through their annual Minneapolis fleamarket, The Junk Bonanza, web site junkmarketstyle.com, and tireless touring, Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer have helped countless devotees transform junk into one-of-a-kind furnishings and accessories. Working their magic on every room of the house--from kitchen to home office--they present conversational case studies that introduce the clients and explore their needs. With characteristic humor in tow, they take readers through each renovation adventure, from shopping for recycled materials to the actual construction projects. The gals also include complete materials lists, plus paint chips and fabric swatches, so that everything can be recreated down to the last delicious detail.
www.amazon.com
makezine.com
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Instructions to help you create projects that make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.
www.makezine.com
myGreenElectronics
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From the Consumer Electronics Association, helps you find places to recycle electronics and to buy green electronics.
mygreenelectronics.org
National Cristina Foundation
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Donate your computer so it can be reused. The National Cristina Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the support of training through donated technology. For more than two decades we have encouraged companies and individuals to donate computers and other technology, which is then matched to charities, schools and public agencies in all 50 states, Canada, and in many countries around the world.
www.cristina.org
PaperBackSwap
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We are a group of readers who share books with each other (NOT just paperbacks) for nothing more than the cost of postage
www.paperbackswap.com
Planet Green
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The site for Discovery's new green channel; includes tips on a wide variety of issues.
planetgreen.discovery.com
Plug-In To eCycling (US EPA)
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Learn where to recycle your cellphone and accessories.
www.epa.gov/cellphones/
ReadyMade Magazine
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Digital version of the magazine that teaches you how to make household items -- from furniture to shampoo -- yourself, often with items you already have.
www.readymade-digital.com
Rehash - Swap your clothes
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Rehashing is a way for you to trade your clothing and accessories with others. You can join groups, socialize, and get fashion as well as green living advice.
rehashclothes.com
RePlayGround! We design eco-gifts from recycled materials!
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RePlayGround is where discarded materials take on new life! We take scrap and make it new - like our bottlecaps turned into magnets and our food packaging transformed into journals. We'll also teach you how to reuse discards all by yourself! Turn old glasses into picture frames, umbrellas into skirts, and create even more do-it-yourself (DIY) projects with our ReMake It recycling kits.
www.replayground.com
SwapaDVD
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Swap DVDs with other club members and get movies mailed directly to you. Currently a free service.
www.swapadvd.com
Swaptree
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Trade books, CDs, DVDs and video games.
www.swaptree.com
The Freecycle Network
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A grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer. Membership is free.
www.freecycle.org
The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
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Provides a starting point for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.
www.obviously.com/recycle/
The ReUseIt Network
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The ReUseIt Network is an on-line forum that serves as a tool to make connections between community members who want to help each other, themselves, and their environment. In a disposable society where many items are discarded long before they have actually outlived their use, The ReUseIt Network helps get things from people who have them but don't want them to people who want them but don't have them.
www.reuseitnetwork.org
U-Haul Box Exchange
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The U-Haul Box Exchange is a messageboard that you can use to trade, sell or buy reusable boxes and moving supplies. With every reuse of a box, a new box is prevented from entering the cycle.
www.uhaul.com/boards/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=4