Darryl, Thanks for everything. Sad to see it end. An Australian alternative is 'Freecycle' The Freecycle Network https://www.freecycle.org/
This works really well, with people asking, or offering. I would alo suggest these news feeds: Giles Parkinson - Renew Economy : Renew Economy reneweconomy.com.au/author/giles/ Giles Parkinson - One Step Off The Grid https://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/author/giles-parkinson/ (Giles runs both: he is a well known alternative energy journalist) Happy New Year! Thanks, Doug On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 09:40:12 -0500 Darryl McMahon <dar...@econogics.com> wrote: > Our household has again been the beneficiary of the Christmas bounty of > stuff. (E.g., I'm using the new keyboard I received, which is more > compact much nicer than the vintage unit I was using until a couple of > days ago, and the old board will go in the parts bin until someone needs > a free, working unit.) > > However, it occurs to me it's a good opportunity to speak of > alternatives to sending things to 'away'. The landfill or incinerator > or whatever else ends up as the final destination for where unwanted > stuff goes when we throw it 'away'. > > I expect most of this e-mail is old news for list subscribers, but > perhaps there is something here you could pass along to others. > > Alternatives to 'away' > > I started writing on this topic a couple of decades ago (or more), and > my web pages still see a fair bit of traffic. I have not maintained > them as much as I might in recent years, so any updates would be welcome. > > http://www.econogics.com/en/enreusea.htm > > http://www.econogics.com/en/enviro.htm > > http://www.econogics.com/econogic.htm > > Some other items have come my way in the past few days - and > re-purposing smart phones was not on my radar in the 80s and 90s. > > http://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-do-with-old-android-smartphone-use-robot-recycle-baby-vr-christmas-2016-12 > > I'm thinking of re-purposing one phone as a GPS / dash cam. With the > new Google Maps allowing one to store maps (no continuous data > connection required), this is more feasible with no data plan required. > > This sizable list also arrived in the past couple of days. > > http://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/recycle-your-unwanted-stuff/ > > And don't discount the 'sharing economy' as a means of reducing our need > to own stuff. > > More on the Story of Stuff at http://storyofstuff.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list > Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org > http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel -- Doug <lema...@internode.on.net> _______________________________________________ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
