By just buying a cool bag, you can help keep vinyl out of our landfills! I just came across these awesome bags from Seen. They are reusable bags made from advertising banners. Instead of these vinyl banners being thrown away and sent to landfills, they are salvaged, cleaned, and given a second life! Every item is made from recycled materials and no two items are alike!
Check out all the bags here!
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This is a guest post written by our friends at Giveacar, enjoy!
The 2003 Household Waste Recycling Act has meant that Local Authorities have been required since the end of 2010 to provide collection of at least two types of recyclable waste together or separate from the household waste. This shows that recycling is now more mainstream; a long way from when the only option was to bundle your cans, bottles, and newspapers together, and take them down to the bank of bins in your local car park.
Not only has recycling become more mainstream; but also technology has enabled it to become a lot more wide-ranging. There are a lot of companies which now recycle mobile phones; giving users cash for them that can range up to quite considerable amounts for the newer phones on the market. Companies recycle ink cartridges or at least refill them, and mp3 players, laptops and cameras can also be recycled.
However, permit me to think a little bigger here. Have you ever thought what it would take to recycle a car?
People often don’t realise that if you scrap a car legally and ethically, you’re pretty much doing the same thing. Authorised Treatment Facilities are legally obliged to recycle at least 85% of a car by weight, which will rise to 95% by 2015. Dangerous materials such as oil and brake fluid are drained and disposed of safely; as well as every part dismantled and disposed of. Nothing should be left to rot in a scrapyard.
However, only half of the cars taken off the road every year in the UK are disposed of via Authorised Treatment Facilities. The rest are left completely unaccounted for. Giveacar aims to combat this problem and promote ethical ways to scrap cars by offering a social enterprise where owners can donate a car to charity.
Giveacar organises free nationwide car collection, then depending on the age and condition of the car, it is either scrapped or sent to auction. All it takes is one simple phone call, and then they will refer you to their collection agents. 75% of the proceeds are given to the charity of the owner’s choice. You will receive a receipt from both Giveacar and the charity of your choice stating the amount of your donation approximately six weeks after collection. Giveacar has raised over £250,000 for a group of over 300 charities since January 2010.
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