Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Charity schemes to pass on promotional pens that work?
We’ve already covered recycling or reusing dead ones but Trevor has a question about recycling schemes for pens that still work:
Here at the School of Health Studies we get inundated with promotional pens from various medical and drug companies.
Most of these pens never get used and just fill up our desks draws. Is there any […]
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle a load of old school textbooks?
We’ve had an email from Peri, asking:
I have many old school textbooks that i don’t need any more. how do i recycle them cheaply?
Peri doesn’t give any more information about how many is “many” or how old is “old” but I imagine it’ll be more than would be accepted in the standard waste system and […]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle overhead projector transparencies?
Finally on this week’s Recycle This stationery theme, we’ve got this question from Nicole:
Now all my college’s lecture rooms FINALLY let you use powerpoint, I can get rid of all the OHP lecture notes I’ve created over the years. What can I do with them?
According to Wikipedia, most transparencies are sheets of cellulose acetate. […]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
How can I get my office or school to recycle more?
We’re having a bit of a themed week here on Recycle This, focusing on stationery and since stationery items are most frequently used in offices or schools, I thought it might be fitting to have a discussion on ways and ideas to help get organisations to recycle more.
Although I was inspired by the stationery stuff, […]
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
How can I reuse or recycle old lever arch files or ringbinders?
By complete coincidence, I’ve had a run of stationery questions over the last few days so I’m officially naming this week “Stationery Week” on Recycle This ;)
First up, we’ve had an email from Neil asking:
I have been asked about recycling lever arch folders and as they have three main components, I didn’t know how to […]
