G Cycle: Sounds Like a Very Sexy Motorcycle But It Isn’t
Oh now you have to check out this site. Essentially, it tells you where you can recycle/dispose of electronic/tech waste of most any type in your local area. Yeah, it would be good if we tried to stop shipping our Macs and Dells to Africa for disposal, don’t you think? If we’re going to send Apples to Africa, they should be the eating kind, not the more-heavily-laced-with-heavy-metals-than-other-computers kind!
G Cycle is a great, great site. Useful, informative, and fun. Watch the commercials (”Hey dude, did you know that every day we dump 356,000 cellphones into landfills? That’s no good!”) while you’re there. Trust me, you’ll bookmark this one.G CYCLE WEBSITE
Song o’ the Day is the amazing Mark Eitzel’s grandiose “Are You the Trash?” [audio:trash.mp3]
Tags: environment
I once saw Mark Eitzel get really drunk and throw his guitar in the air, which then hit the drummer and caused a premature end to his show.
It was in Manchester, England - and I had convinced several people to come along. Bad move.
This may sound silly, but for somebody like me who has been a blind consumer for his entire life, becoming “green” is confusing; I mean, where do I start?
That’s why this kind of post (and your blog in general) is important to me. This is useful information which let’s me do the right thing with minimal effort and, let’s be honest, why most people aren’t green in the first place.
Kirk -
That’s why I am not nearly as green as I could be - access to information that would allow this. What’s more, recycling things like batteries and toxic chemicals (paints, etc.) is quite difficult in many areas. Until just last year, I was forced to drive forty miles to do any of this, unless I waited for a twice annual toxic-roundup day. Meaning, of course, that most people just dumped thing rather than schedule their lives around twin ‘green’ poles each year.
Hopefully, as businesses realize that providing green ’services’ is viable, we’ll have increasing access to low-cost alternatives/solutions. G Cycle is great, but what we really need to do is nip the production cycle in the bud - create less waste to begin with. This takes legislation as well as consumer choices, but with the latter I tend to doubt its power. Why? Well, take Apple computers for example. By far the beloved machine of the ‘green’ or ‘liberal’ community. Also the most toxic machine produced. Think this has swayed the green crowd to jump ship for a greener product? Nope. Lifestyle choices easily trump green choices, even among the most strident.