SES sponsors a program to provide its scooters to students with financial difficulties. Called “Giving Back”, a portion of the business’s net profit is set aside to finance the new vehicles. Continue reading →
When scraping your old clunker, the least you can do is donate it to a charity that will undo some of the environmental damage. A UK group does just that by planting trees. Continue reading →
If you’re decluttering your bookshelves, there’s a website that will make donating your books to charity amazingly simple. You won’t even have to leave your livingroom. Continue reading →
Today is America Recycles Day, a nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting recycling in the US. All across the country, thousands of events are being held to celebrate recycling awareness in communities. One way organizations are participating t… Continue reading →
Ink cartridges are not your average piece of household waste. 375 million ink cartridges are disposed of in the U.S. yearly, with as many as 350 million, landing in landfills, according to industry figures. Now you can prevent adding your cartridge to the heap and help your fellow man. Recycle4Vets, a new, online-based not-for-profit, helps [...] Continue reading →
U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer has recycled 100 million hangers in the last six months, raising more than $588,000 for international children’s charity, UNICEF. The retailer’s hanger recycling scheme is simple: customers are given…
Got a couch, TV or set of dishes in good condition that you need to get rid of? Now you can find a new home for your unwanted, but usable goods while you update your Facebook status. Online classifieds company Oodle is launching new FreeCircle communities on Facebook, allowing neighbors to offer reusable items to [...] Continue reading →
You bring your own reusable shopping bags to the grocery store to cut down on all those single-use plastic bags. But what happens when you’ve stockpiled too many reusable bags or when your bags are worn-out and no longer usable? ChicoBag, the…
The headline pretty much sums it up. What’s not to like? Builders of Hope is a remarkable North Carolina-based charity that saves older houses from demolition (frequently moving them to a new site), thoroughly rehabbing t… Continue reading →
The headline pretty much sums it up. What’s not to like? Builders of Hope is a remarkable North Carolina-based charity that saves older houses from demolition (frequently moving them to a new site), thoroughly rehabbing t… Continue reading →