Green Ghost Busters Hunt Down Ghost Energy Leaks

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Matt Embrey .

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Lurking in your walls, in your attic and basement, all around you are power leaks that are costing you money and impacting the environment.  Don’t know what to do?  No worries, call the Green Ghost Busters, Sustainable Spaces, Inc. of San Francisco, CA.  Armed with an arsenal of hi-tech gadgets, Sustainable Spaces, with [...]

Find e-Waste Electronics Recycling Center’s Near You

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Matt Embrey .

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MyGreenElectronics.org is a great site from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) that has a wealth of information to help consumers Reduce, Reuse & Recycle their electronics.  The site includes a database of recycling centers and services that you can use to recycle your old electronics.  You can search the database by zip code [...]

UPGRADE & Recycle Your Old Electronics

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Matt Embrey .

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Two new customer buy back programs aim to reduce the amount of e-waste pouring into landfills every day.  Both ecoNEW and TechForward pay consumers for their old electronics equipment hoping to encourage new purchases and to keep these products, many of which contain harmful chemicals, out of our landfills.  The reclaimed electronics will [...]

UPDATE: Recycling Electronics via the Mail…For Free!

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Matt Embrey .

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We have a few more details on yesterdays post about the e-waste recycling mail back program…  The USPS will run the pilot program for 90 days in which time they will determine if the consumers response to this program warrants a nation wide roll out. 

Recycling Electronics via the Mail…For Free!

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Matt Embrey .

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Recycling our bottles, cans and paper is as easy as walking down to the curb once a week, but what about those other things our town doesn’t give us a bin for? The United States Postal Service has answered this question with this weeks launch of a pilot “Mail [...]

Wal-Mart Reusable “Green” Shopping Bags

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Matt Embrey .

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Paper or Plastic? Neither… is displayed on the new reusable shopping bags from Wal-Mart. The bags cost $1 a piece and are available near the checkout area at the store. In the US, we throw away an estimated 100 billion plastic bags a year. Wal-Mart’s new reusable bags are [...]