Resources: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Knittn’ Kitten

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Knittn’ Kitten is a vintage fabric and notions thrift store in the Pacific Northwest. They offer retro patterns (1960-1970), 1930-2009 notions, previously owned fabric, glass beads, trim, crafting supplies, yarn and much more!

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DMAchoice.org

Sunday, January 17, 2010

DMAchoice™ is an online tool developed by the Direct Marketing Association to help you manage your mail. The site is part of a larger program designed to respond to consumers’ concerns over the amount of mail they receive, and it is the evolution of the DMA’s Mail Preference Service created in 1971.

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Catalog Choice

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Catalog Choice lets you opt out of unwanted mail by controlling the catalogs you receive in the mail. It’s a free service that helps you cut back on or eliminate the free magazines that cram your mailbox. Once you register with Catalog Choice, check its database for the catalogs that get mailed to you. You’ll [...]

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Swap.com

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Swap.com is a website that allows you to swap your used books, CDs, DVDs and video games. Membership is free, and members list the items that they are trading and the items they want, and Swaptree’s two- and three-way trade searches find the items that you can receive for the items that you want to trade. Members [...]

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Freecycle

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Freecycle is an excellent resource if you’re looking to reduce your waste. The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,864 groups with 7,603,875 members around the world. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good [...]

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Earth 911

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Earth911 is an online resources dedicated to helping people reduce, reuse and recycle. They started off as a “recycling hotline” seventeen years ago and, still today, one of their most useful features is their recycling database. You can search the database by material and zipcode to find a recycling center that will accept hard-to-recycle items [...]

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41 Pounds

Saturday, January 16, 2010

41 Pounds is a non-profit junk mail reduction service that guarantees it will reduce your junk mail by 80-95% within 2 months of your signing up and will keep it this way for 5 years. 41 Pounds will contact direct marketing associations and catalogs companies on your behalf and instruct them to remove your name [...]

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