November 2007 | Choice News
How to Recycle Everything
In an effort to be the most eco-conscious kid on your block, you’ve no doubt found yourself standing with some kit or caboodle in your hand, staring at it vacantly, wondering whether it is reuseable, recyclable, take-backable, compostable, or, sadly, bound for that bin grimly labeled garbage. To demystify the process, if only a little, we took to the web and compiled this shortlist of some of the more interesting ideas we discovered for dealing with your post-consumer waste.
Sex Toy Recycling: All The Buzz
Oh, yes, you can. Major companies in the U.S., like Sony, are now creating “take-back” programs so that consumers can send their old, obsolete electronics back to the manufacturer — with the goal of taking in as many products as they send out. Well, because remote control helicopters and Wiis aren’t the only electronics people play with in their free time, LoveHoney, a UK based purveyor of adult toys, has started the “world’s first sex toy recycling scheme” for their line of Rabbit vibrators. Their offer is simple: send your old one back, get half off on a brand new one. Perhaps the sexiest part of all is that for every vibrator returned, LoveHoney makes a donation to a green charity (lovehoney.co.uk/rabbit-amnesty).
When In Doubt, Drop Trough
In our Jetson-esque future, perhaps it will be possible to toss all of our kaput products into a magical machine (made from recycled sex toys and the like, of course) and have them pop back out, good as new. Until then, we’ll have to settle for the likes of two websites from across the pond. Recyclethis.co.uk and Compostthis.co.uk are helpful hubs for recycling/reusing and composting questions and solutions. Just type in your latest post-consumer conundrum, press send, and watch the practical, creative and often downright ingenious ideas roll in. Recent suggestions have included using old yoga mats (which are made from unrecyclable polyvinyl chorlide, or PVC) for working under your car, or, if you’re already carfree, using them to kneel on in the garden; using old USB memory sticks as plant labels; and rinsing out old potato chip bags to reuse as media storage. As for compostables, there’s plenty you probably haven’t thought of, including human hair and pee — yes, pee — as they’re both great sources of nitrogen. So next time you’re in the garden, feel free.
— Eric Larson
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