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Eco-Friendly Printing Options for Your Home Office

Reenita Malhotra — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:34 +0000

If you spend a good amount of time in your home office, then you might want to consider how best you can green your work environment. Paper is one of the biggest sources of waste in every home office. While digitizing your work is really the better option for trees, there is no getting around [...]

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GTR: Tech ReUse Panel Discussion with Rob Zopf and Ross Brouse

Sean Daily — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:09:45 +0000

GreenTalk Radio Host Sean Daily holds a panel discussion about reducing eWaste through equipment donations and the challenges this poses to businesses with Rob Zopf, Vice President of the National Cristina Foundation, and Ross Brouse, CEO of Solar VPS. Click Play Below,or Transcript Sean Daily: Hi and welcome to “GreenTalk” a podcast series from greenlivingideas.com. “GreenTalk” helps listeners [...]

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Tech Recycling Trends toward eWaste Reuse

GLI Editors — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Whether or not you consider yourself a tech-savvy individual, you have probably noticed the latest trends of corporate environmental awareness. It seems like every day another large enterprise company makes a public announcement about their "new green initiative." Recently, representatives of Apple announced that the company will no longer sell CRT monitors, which contain significant amounts [...]

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Recycling Printer Cartridges

GLI Editors — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:00:00 +0000

You have purchased an ENERGY STAR computer and monitor, you buy only recycled printer paper, and your power save option is turned on. What other steps can you take towards green computing? How about recycling your old printer cartridges as an additional green measure? Used printer cartridges are such a commodity that companies are even [...]

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Recycling Electronics

GLI Editors — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:00:00 +0000

The thought of our homes and workspace being littered with harmful, toxic waste is appalling. What we don’t realize is that just about everyone lives among some of the most environmentally hazardous material there is—our computers and electronics. Some of the materials that make up components in our household electronics are lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, [...]

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Where Do Old Computers Go?

GLI Editors — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:00:00 +0000

Electronic equipment is a major source of hazardous waste, and needs to be disposed of properly to prevent hazardous substances entering the environment. More than two million tons of electronic waste end up in U.S. landfills every year. Many states have electronics recycling programs. If you are replacing a computer that’s still [...]

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Recycling Paper With Sustainable Living

GLI Editors — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:00:00 +0000

As you lug yet another pile of paper to your local recycling center, you may be wondering exactly how spending all of that gas money to get it there works with your green living goals. Here’s a hint: You may want to save yourself, and the economy, from the dangerous fuel omissions and try recycling [...]

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