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Got a project here to do with the reuse of products, im not talking about recycling exactly but more like like reusing, eg. giving computers to youth groups, things like that.
Im just looking for any resources or groups that deal with 'green' issues.
Like this?
http://www.youthfortechnology.org/frames.html
or this?
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm#recycle
http://www.moea.state.mn.us/rpdir/index.cfm
What kind are issues are you looking for? Is this just research?
cornfed
09-23-2006, 11:14 PM
http://www.kidney.org/support/kidneycars/index.cfm
those last two links are great Budafist.. cheers..
some research for a future poster on persuading people to donate items rather then bin them...to reuse rather than get rid of.
frankster
09-24-2006, 10:41 PM
Someone I'm in touch with through another forum (Jacob Madsen) did some really great stuff for a re-use of scrap for art center...
http://www.jacobmadsen.com/portfolio/adbook/
I'm referring to the 3 designs in a row at the bottom of the set of 9 on this page.
Thought you might find it interesting even if not directly useful.
It's a good idea. People need to recycle and it needs to be easier for those that choose to.
thats very nice.
i cant quite make it out... what does the scrap stand for? any idea?
frankster
09-25-2006, 11:36 PM
It's these guys...
http://www.scrap-sf.org/
scroungers center for reusable art parts in San Francisco
Working at a printers - we have loads of offcuts of pretty cards and papers and interesting card shapes left over from die cutting. We give them to kindergartens to play with.
There should be a company that links up excess stuff from companies to other organisations that would like them. Maybe any waste that your company makes gets put into a database and some genius figures out what can be done with it and contacts the people that might want this excess stuff to pick up.
Samakimoto Graphics
09-27-2006, 01:19 PM
That's good to hear about re-using and all.
The saying goes something like: "Refuse, recycle, re-use and repair."
The repair is a latter addition, an area that's formed small industry in " less developed nations".
Although once I went someone's house where they repaired and recycled everything. I'm talking every tin can ever used in this house was kept. I think that's going a *little* overboard....
^ My mother is like that. She is running out of room to store things that "someone might need someday".
Oh, I'm pretty good at hording, but we moved house 2 months ago so I threw out just about everything.
Moving house is a good way to sort it all out.
Too bad we have heaps of storage under our house - I can see us putting stuff in there that we cant throw out.
urstwile
09-29-2006, 02:42 AM
Found this link (http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm)
urstwile
10-02-2006, 03:10 AM
This link is also pretty cool. Freecycle (http://www.freecycle.org/)
frankster
10-02-2006, 05:28 AM
freecycle rules! I gave a bloke a load of empty baby food jars to cultivate orchids in through freecycle.
urstwile
10-02-2006, 06:03 AM
Wow. Good to hear. I just joined up. :)
PrintDriver
10-02-2006, 11:15 AM
I just put it in my front yard. Whatever it is will vanish overnight.
When we last moved we had a yard sale and 4 cars were parked across the street at the end of the day just waiting for the FREE sign to go up. Hilarious. Thought there was gonna be a fight. :D
jakey
10-12-2006, 07:55 AM
Someone I'm in touch with through another forum (Jacob Madsen) did some really great stuff for a re-use of scrap for art center...
http://www.jacobmadsen.com/portfolio/adbook/
Wow, thanks for the plug. As for the questions about SCRAP.
It's the S.croungers R.esource for R.euseable A.rt P.arts
Don't ask me hw that accronymn works. They have some pretty cool stuff in there, though it's not as big as I thought. It's deffinately worth checking out.
I've been playing with the concept of living a spartan lofestyle lately. I have so much stuff accumulated from years of projects and coursework and just picking crap up off of the ground. I think it's time to purge myself of all comfort belongings and strip down to just what I need. This way I can create my personal space from a blank canvas.
(http://djerassi.org/)
I'm not very "green". My idea of environmental design is to design something and print it on 100% Post Consumer Recycled Fibre, instead of virgin paper. :)