Category Archives: recycling

Where Old Computers Can Find New Purpose

When spring-cleaning season comes around, Are faced you faced with the same question: Has the day of reckoning arrived for my 12-year-old computer?

At the nonprofit computer refurbisher in Fremont, reuse is the goal. Volunteers like Andrew Phetsomphou pry open donated computers and install new parts that give the machines a longer life. The refurbished desktops and laptops then are sold cheap at Interconnection’s retail store or shipped internationally to communities with fewer resources. I sketched a pallet of Dells marked for Ghana next to another slated for Mali.

Phetsomphou, a 21-year-old networking student at Highland Community College, is glad to donate time for this cause and calls the hands-on experience “a good résumé builder.”

Google – nonprofit computer refurbisher in your community to find something similar to you.

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Go Thrift Store Shopping Online – Fashion Recycling

Secondhand shopping is in the throes of a tech-driven seismic shift, one that is quickly making the gently worn and just-like-new not simply equal in stature to off-the-rack items, but arguably more desirable. How much more would you want that Prada purse or perfect vintage fedora if it were from the closet of your favorite fashion blogger or among favorite items selected by a stylist to A-list stars?

At the same time, fashion-minded startups are pursuing new ways to connect buyers and sellers online in a space that’s been stagnant for years.

Recently tapping fashion bloggers such as Man Repeller and Because I’m Addicted to sell their preloved clothing and accessories through its platform, Copious is just one example of secondhand style’s new look. The RealReal, Poshmark and Threadflip are also turning secondhand fashion into an evermore stylish, entertaining and increasingly social pursuit.Read more and see the websites at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/26/LVFM1O6F6Q.DTL#ixzz1tj99VYov

 
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